My memory fails me from time to time, but I had thought there was a CV setting for the old LC decoders to enable operation on DC....which I set so that I can run them with my wheel cleaning gizmo that I power with an old DC pack. Has it been so long since I cleaned the wheels on my locos with LC decoders? I see in the decoder pro panel window that the tab for this is disabled because it is not available. I guess I just remember wrongly?
(have the question in on the Soundtraxx forum too)
SoundTraxx LC decoders CANNOT be ran on DC power. Trying to do so will probably destroy the decoder.
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Same as the other replies in the answer department. I will add one more thing. The LC decoders do not like and will eventually cook when someone is running a DC analog loco on DCC using 00. I still have the decoder. It was a B280 LC in a Bachmann 2-8-0.
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locoi1sa Same as the other replies in the answer department. I will add one more thing. The LC decoders do not like and will eventually cook when someone is running a DC analog loco on DCC using 00. I still have the decoder. It was a B280 LC in a Bachmann 2-8-0. Pete
So if I have a DCC/Sound equipped loco (Loco #1) with an LC decoder on the layout, and then I run a DC loco (Loco #2) with address 00, this will eventually cook the LC decoder on Loco #1?
Good advice if so, as I've never heard of this before.
Could be why the LC decoder in my Proto 2000 GP7 stopped working correctly. I think I could have been testing a DC loco using address 00 while the GP7 was also on the layout. My old GP7 is on eBay, in anticipation of the new Athearn Genesis GP7s. Although from what I've read online, my old P2K is more accurate. So maybe I should have kept her
Hope the newer Tsunami decoders can be on the tracks when a 00 address loco is being used, as I've also done this
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I have never tried running my Tsunami in the zero bit mode as I gave away the system that could do that.
Rich
Southwest Chief So if I have a DCC/Sound equipped loco (Loco #1) with an LC decoder on the layout, and then I run a DC loco (Loco #2) with address 00, this will eventually cook the LC decoder on Loco #1? Good advice if so, as I've never heard of this before.
Hey thanks, Gentlemen, for the responses. Now I had never heard this before either. But I have had one LC that somehow blew the amplifier and now is simply a motion and light function decoder
I suppose it is possible I ran a DC loco when this was out on the track also....I always run my Ebay purchases once on original power before converting them. I wonder............
Matt.
That is correct. The 2-8-0 was just sitting on the layout. It was at a train show three years ago and I had stepped out for lunch when another club member was running his Blue Box Athearn F7 on 00. Someone saw smoke coming from the tender and the layout shorted and shut down. Resetting just shut it down again. When I returned from lunch someone said my loco was shorting out the system. I took the tender shell off and saw the big scorch mark on the decoder. I put the shell back on and it is still like that today in its box. Later I found out how it fried. Some day I will put another decoder in it.
The Tsunamis will not be harmed on DC or DCC running 00. Even if DC is disabled in CV29. It will just sit there. It is just the older LC and a few other manufactures decoders that DC will destroy.
Appreciate the info.
locoi1sa Some day I will put another decoder in it. Pete
Some day I will put another decoder in it.
Pete, I replaced the old LC decoder in my Bachmann 2-8-0 with a Tsunami T-1000 (medium chuff). Nice improvement.
Tsunamis can work on DC, but the older LC decoder definitely willbe destroyed if you put them on DC track.
Putting a decoder on the track with a system using zero stretching is not the same as putting it on DC track
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