I am busy with construction of the layout such as laying track and wiring turnouts. I tried to run a few trains the other day and when I turned on the power to the layout, I got 9 beeps. I turned it off and looked for short circuits. For some reason, I unplugged the throttle, It works fine. Even the throttle works. What happened?
Craig North Carolina
Is it still beeping now? I had that problem when I did my layout.. I had a couple feeder lines I missed and they would touch and short out.. would not happen all the time.. but after the 3 third time I tracked them down and got them hooked up the bus and all was good. If you were working on the layout you might have had a stray tool or piece of track or wiring hitting the rails
Look in the manual that came with your system. In the back in the index, look up beeps. Since you didn't have the throttle hooked up you got 9 beeps: basically a transmitting failure on the loconet. Joe
9 beeps, loconet issue. Probably because the throttle was plugged in and momentarily pulled the voltage low when powering on. If it doesn't do it with the throttle unplugged, nothing to worry about. If it still does it even with the throttle unplugged, you may have a bad loconet cable. Unplug at the command station and try it, then plug in just the first device, try it, until you find the fault. It will either be the last device connected, or the cable between the previous device and this one.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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A short circuit is five beeps. you get eight beeps when you do a memory clear with option switch 39. don't know what nine beeps is.
Thanks, Randy. That is exactly what occurs. If I start with the trottle unplugged, no problem. If it is plugged then beep,beep, etc.
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What command station are you using? How do you power up the system? I have a DB150 and I have no problems powering it up with the DT400 plugged in. Joe.
1 Beep - DCS powered on successfully or sent programming command
3 Beeps - Loco address has been “purged” due to non-use, this frees up slots for other locos
4 Beeps - Route nesting error or too many entries cascaded
5 Beeps - Booster short circuit shutdown. Fault alarm. Clear the short on the track & the DCS will reset
6 Beeps - Command Station already present in system-only one command station should be present
7 Beeps - CMOS battery low condition, time to change the battery
8 Beeps - Memory ECC/checksum fail. Auto reset (no action)
9 Beeps - DCS transmit failure. LocoNet fault
16 Beeps - Software timeout failure. Auto reset (no action)
Alan
Freelancing the LK&O Railroad