Hi Ed,
That's certainly a theoretical possibility. I literally turned on the
system, last night, moved the throttle to speed step 3, the engine moved
about a foot, and stopped! I suspected dirty track, but pushing it by
hand did nothing. I forgot to turn the throttle down from speed step 3
to zero last night. I then spent about 45 running my other engine. If
the decoder had reset during that 45 minutes, it would have moved.
Tonight I turned the system on and turned on the track power and the
engine started running right away (because the throttle was still at
s.s. 3). I had already resigned myself to having to take the engine
apart this weekend. I assumed one of the wires must have come loose.
This engine's been running fine since I finished building it over a year
ago. Oh well,... gremlins... :-)
- Peter.
On 06/08/2012 8:48 pm, Ed wrote:
Last night I started up my RS-1 and it ran for about a foot and then shut down!
No lights, sounds, motion, nada! Completely dead in the water.
Tonight I turned on the DCC system and the RS-1 starts running! Go figure!
- Peter.
One possible cause is the decoder overheated for some reason and the thermal
protection circuit breaker cut out. After cooling, the circuit breaker
returned to normal and the loco ran as before. There might be other
explanation, but that one came to mind first. Ed L.
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