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Re: DCC slowing?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003 00:42:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, John C. Moore wrote:
> > I have a question abuot DCC. I was first exposed to DCC at our last LUG meeting
> > where some of the motors had been modified. They were running 2 motors on the
> > track on different channels. Then we placed the two motors on the same channel
> > and placed them on my train (which requires 2 motors). The results were
> > nice...for a while. It ran quite nicely for maybe 10 minutes, but then it
> > started slowing in the corners...especially in two corners that were diagonal of
> > each other on the oval. It continued to go slower and slower until it came to a
> > stop in these corners and simply was acting like it had no power. Has anyone
> > else had this problem and what is the cause? Over heating?
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> What was supplying the power to the track? An RCX or a commercial DCC
> controller? If an RCX running LDCC, it may have been the RCX over heating.
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> ROSCO
The track was powered by a RCX.
Also we only had 1 engine running and experienced this problem.
mark
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| (...) Snip (...) Yes, I have experienced this. I'd suspect overheating- what were the room conditions? I had it happen at LLCA in 2000- ~30C (reasonably hot), and largish trains (5-10 cars). The best solution I could come up with was not to run the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: DCC slowing?
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| (...) Is it possible we may have in some manner damaged the RCX, the motors or the decoders when we had the steel wool flame-up? Prior to placing my train on the track the track was cleaned with steel wool and the power to the track was accidently (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC slowing?
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| (...) What was supplying the power to the track? An RCX or a commercial DCC controller? If an RCX running LDCC, it may have been the RCX over heating. ROSCO (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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