Had enough for today

How cheap?

Clem, now if you're "selling trains cheap", the Forum rules state you must post prices

dgauss posted:

Clem, now if you're "selling trains cheap", the Forum rules state you must post prices

Cold... very cold!

I'm not sure why you would use the "all" to control your lash-ups? anything in the active list will respond.

I hear you though  ,    this is the first year we've successfully run a couple. (version 5)

I've even resorted to giving a couple of engines the same ID and have no need of the watch dog.  twice as loud ,double everything. 

It's tuff when stuff acts up. I usually have to walk away so my emotions aren't a factor in finding what really happened.

Having some high dollar items smash or rip apart, can make for a bad day.

Well, you can always upgrade to Postwar, Prewar, MPC or most LTI trains.

Do not have command yet. How can a engine start up on a non powered siding. Can it receive the signal from the out side rail

An engine cannot start up if there is no power to the track. Was there a lighted car with each pickup bridging the live and dead sections of the track?

It can't start up from a non powered siding. Proto-2 engine receive the signal from the center rail and acknowledgement back via the outside rail.

Proto-3 engines don't care one way or the other.

Thanks, that makes sense. Tstark

RoyBoy posted:

An engine cannot start up if there is no power to the track. Was there a lighted car with each pickup bridging the live and dead sections of the track?

Above advice from RoyBoy is absolutely carved in stone correct. Way back in my early DCS operations i would have random engines (on powered track but not started)  false start in conventional. I was running trains at night with minimal lighting and noticed arcing over an atlas switch form  engines and EOT devices. No circuit breakers or fuses tripped. Next i pulled all my switches,did the frog , isolation and feed mods and DCS world vastly improved.

 Yes, of course something happened to live those tracks and that's why it took off.

I had a brand new engine tear apart a consist because it ran about a third faster than it should. I was told it was me!

I had several other issues pop up that same day including some bugs in the system. So I put everything away for the winter early that year. Sometimes, You have to walk away!

 This has happened to me too many times. I always come back to see what the heck went wrong! Once, it was just that a loop got quick wired and put on a single channel. Add 2 sound cars without chokes and everything acted up.

clem k posted:

Well with all these issues i've been having with DCS. This afternoon really took the cake. So I got all my MU's up and running all two of them and one set of E-8s Using the ALL button to control them, its a little slow with the response, OK i can live with that. But when I have a 2 unit MU sitting on a toggled OFF siding, having the the lead unit take off at full speed, its time to call it quits for the day  

Trains for sale cheap

Clem k

hmmmm...above may be normal but out of curiosity have you ever reseated your transceiver boards in your remote and tiu"s