Nick12DMC posted:Just a small update. Preliminary results appear to support that moving the PDI 12V supply has had positive impact.
I just tried moving the unit from the same power outlet that the Legacy base was connected to another outlet. So it's still on a 60Hz supply at the moment. The seems to have improved reliability greatly.
Question for Sean, where is your PDI power supply plugged in relation to your Legacy Base supply?
I am thinking it can't be that simple.....and I need to get everything on the layout reconnected to do a full test.
Nick
I have all my power in the same power strip. We tried separating the adapters to different plugs and all that when I was on the phone with Lionel and it did not have any effect. The problem with this issue is it is so random, sometimes you think its fixed by something you did and then all of a sudden it does not work again.
They sent me a new PDI power supply. Had me try a new legacy base. Had me try just running the legacy wire from base to track directly instead of through ZW-L. None of that fixed it.
You are lucky you have just one. Try diagnosing this with 10! haha
They did want me to keep the PDI cables away from power feeds because I sent them some videos and they saw my wire bundles.
I was about to give up after 2 months of back and forth but then once they sent my tracks back they seemed to work and I also changed from 2 power districts to one and also separated the power feeds for the LCS modules to a different transformer.
So far everything still works.
Sean
