Background: I've been running DCS for several years with no problems. I have two TIU's controlling three separate tracks. Both TIU's were "super" so I could move my engines around. I run PS2 and PS3 engines. I use the variable power on all tracks so I can occasionally run conventional engines. My current layout has been up and running for several years with no problems.
The other day I was running 3 trains when one of the engines stopped responding to the DCS controller. The other 2 engines I was running continued to work fine. I had brand new batteries in the handheld unit. After trying a few things like shutting everything down and bringing it back up with no improvement in frustration I hit the emergency stop and tried to re-add everything on the hand held. At this point nothing worked. I opened it up and reset the board (it was a little loose), I reset the remote and the TIU's and tried again. I am working with only one of the TIU's now but got to the point where I can control the track voltage successfully. (the cabooses light up so I know I have power). With 18 volts on the track I try to add mth engines but the remote doesn't find any to add! It then adds an engine with an arbritrary number as its name with "MTC" across the bottom where the softkey functions usually show up. I have several friends bringing grandchildren over soon to see the trains! If I can't solve this I'm going to have to go back to conventional operation (which I would rather not). I can't afford to replace my DCS equipment right now either. The remote also responds very slowly to the buttons, again it has brand new batteries! I borrowed a friends hand held controller and I can't get it to work either. No changes have been made to the wiring as it always worked fine before.
Does anyone have any ideas on what is wrong here?
Thanks!!!!
