I have been a DCS user for 11 years and have never considered TMCC until a few weeks ago. A friend
lent me a command base to try out with my DCS TIU so I could try to run 2 Lionel TMCC engines that I bought
at spring York last April.
I wired it up according to the instructions(in the DCS users manual) and with a slight hiccup with the run/program mode and changing
addresses I got the trains running.(with the help of the forum)
I wouldn't say I'm hooked but I do enjoy running these locomotives with TMCC.
I bought some more TMCC locos both Lionel and Atlas and have some questions...
Why is it some locos react differently to commands ?
for instance...my Atlas CNJ SD40 is very hard to stop when I hit the direction button... 7 times out of 10
it wont stop,I have to hit it several times to maybe get it to stop,but my Atlas CNJ SW9 switcher reacts to commands
on the first try and is much more responsive than the SD40.
I now have 4 Lionel TMCC locos all seem to react fairly well to commands but sometimes I do have to
maybe hit the direction button twice but not often.
Out of the 7 TMCC locos I now own the Atlas CNJ SD40 and a Atlas RS1 are the biggest stinkers but the Atlas SW9
runs the best out of them all.
Is this a wiring problem ? or do some TMCC locos have there own personalities and quirks ?
Thanks in advance ?
pictured below are the new additions to what was once only a DCS layout...
