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Strange acting decoder

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  • Member since
    February 2010
  • From: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Strange acting decoder
Posted by Eric97123 on Monday, December 6, 2010 1:17 PM

I have an Atlas BNSF dash-8 that I have a DH165AO decoder in.  Never had any trouble with it and the wires are soldered to the decoder to avoid any thing coming lose.  So yesterday I had the loco upside down so I could upgrade my couplers to Kadee's and when I put it back on the track it did not respond to the train number but it did respond to 03 number.  I did a reset and reassigned the loco number with no issues.  My question is- will turning the decoder upside down reset it?  I have a sound equiped Atlas that can be reset using a magnet, so does the DH165AO or all digitrax decoders have a hard reset feature?

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  • From: Reading, PA
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Posted by rrinker on Monday, December 6, 2010 1:34 PM

 No motion sensor that I know of - perhaps static?

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Monday, December 6, 2010 9:18 PM

I've had static electricity scramble a hard drive. Something similar could have happened.

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