I was running trains and things started to go a little haywire with my different loco's starting to act up. My BS 4-4-0 was the worst, having lots of erratic behaviour. I soon realized the batteries in NCE wireless controller were likely the cause. They tested dead, so I change them out and everything was as it should be, except for my BS 4-4-0. It had sound but would not respond in any other way. It took four or five resets before it would respond to commands.
So is the low battery situation likely the cause of the BS 4-4-0 meltdown? If so how would that have played out electrically to end up with that issue?
Just wondering.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Pretty unlikely that a weak battery in a radio throttle could mess up a decoder, unless it was sending odd packets back to the command station. I don't know how much if any error checking is used on NCE's cab bus, so I suppose it would be possible that it was sending strange commands and modified decoder settings. Try resetting it.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Thanks Randy.
It took more than one reset attempt to correct the 4-4-0, all is working well now. Erratic signals caused by intermittent power was the only thing I could think of.
Brent, I have two wireless ProCabs. The batteries literally last one year on average, as indicated on a time log that I maintain on each throttle.
Over the past weekend, I replaced all eight AAA batteries in the two ProCabs, since both throttles were dead, requiring me to tether the ProCabs to operate.
Once the batteries were replaced, both throttles worked wirelessly, and none of the locos failed to respond. I doubt that weak batteries caused your problem.
Rich
Alton Junction