Your best bang for the buck is to take the shell off and look for a pinched or bare wire from your installation.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I have never heard of any CV that would be set to cause an engine to just stop in its (ahem) tracks. If there is such a CV I certainly would like to know about it.
Does it happen in a box? Does it happen wrapped in socks?
(sorry, was too obvious)
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Does it happen in the same place or different places? Does it happen near a rail joint?
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
YouR problem is making some of us think it's an electrical problem or an installation problem not a DCC CV issue per se. When the engine stops, do you still have lights and power?
My track is pretty clean (I use the "gleam" method as seen in MR some years ago) and I keep my engines wheels and pick-ups clean as well. All my rolling stock have metal wheels. In addition, no amount of nudging will help. The other functions continue to operate as well, lights and sound. It seems like CV124.5 is acting to shut the motor down but I do not have the CV configured this way and the motor seems fine. It operates at about .06ma, most of the time but when the engine stops it increases rapidly to .5 or more. It can happen at any time, it seems. I just wondered if anyone can suggest a good setting for CV56 or if 255 is the best.
Gotta ask: How clean is your track? How clean are your H10-44's wheels and pickups? I would check those first before changing CVs.
What is a "normal" setting for CV56, "regulation influence," in Loksound 4.0 Select? I have replaced an "original" QSI decode in a Walthers H10-44 with a Loksound decoder but am having an issue with the engine just stopping at some point. The motor is fine, there is no binding in the engine and parts. CV56 came set at 255, the maximum influence. I just reset it at 128 but have not run the engine with the change yet. It may take 30" or more of running before it happens or it may occur shortly after beginning the run. ???
BTW, I have done the "automatic" BEMF setting more than once as well as manually with the Lokprogammer.