Hello everyone! My new Ives Olympian started to rub sluggish today. Is this a sign that the battery is going bad? I put it on three different track loops and cleaned the track. Same sluggish performance on all of them.
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Is it Traditional or Proto, 1, 2 or 3? Is it sluggish by itself or pulling a load?
Steve
It is Proto 2 and sluggish all by itself.
Tinplate loves oil. Did you oil it?
Yep, oiled it.
Here's where I'd start. Remove the collector plate and grease all the gears. Then a drop of oil on the ends of all the moving shafts. A drop of oil on the inside and outside of each axle. While you have the collector off, make sure the tach wheel is lined up with the sensor. Also oil the axles on the pony trucks and make sure they are not binding anywhere.
Steve
Thanks Steve. I am sending you an email by the way.
Did you charge it? If you have the charger, plug it in overnight. If you charge on the track, charge it for a few hours at 12 volts in neutral. Not sure the battery would make it sluggish. You can tell if the battery is weak by killing power to the track and listening to the engine sounds to see if it goes through the full shutdown sequence. If the sound dies abruptly, you need to charge it.
Also, check that nothing is binding and that the engine didn't pick up any debris.
George