@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:I converted all of my Proto locomotives to BCRs and have never had a problem ... and I have about every combination of boards they made.
There have been a few documented instances of that particular resistor cooking, so it's not a totally isolated case. OTOH, I haven't heard of a definitive reason for it.
I looked at the roughly 20 PS/1 board sets I have, and one has a discolored resistor although it still reads the correct 24 ohm value. That board works fine when tested on the bench. It don't draw excessive current or exhibit any other issues, so I'm not sure what causes the excess current at times in that resistor.