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Sound on all locos. Some run, some don't. Short?

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Sound on all locos. Some run, some don't. Short?
Posted by robkoz on Saturday, November 18, 2017 7:56 PM

I just completed my layout with 3 mains, all with switches and crossovers. Haven't run the locos in almost 4 months or turned on my NCE 5 amp booster system either. All the locos have sound & I can sound their horn and bells but some will not move. I've had two moving while the other 2 wont move.

Short or do they need to be reprogrammed? Seems to be my Atherns and Inter Mountain locos.

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Posted by maxman on Saturday, November 18, 2017 8:09 PM

Did you have any of them consisted before you took the time off?  First thing I'd do is check to be sure that CV19 is zero on all the locos.

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Posted by robkoz on Saturday, November 18, 2017 8:15 PM

maxman

Did you have any of them consisted before you took the time off?  First thing I'd do is check to be sure that CV19 is zero on all the locos.

 

 
Bingo! Forgot about that! Thanks.
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Posted by PennCentral99 on Saturday, November 18, 2017 11:08 PM

robkoz

 

 
maxman

Did you have any of them consisted before you took the time off?  First thing I'd do is check to be sure that CV19 is zero on all the locos.

 

 

 
Bingo! Forgot about that! Thanks.
 

Hope that works for you. If not, sometimes when decoders sit that long, a reset helps, and a reset of the command station won't hurt either. After a move, my dcc system and locos sat for almost 6 months before I could run them again. One loco lost it's mind, a factory rest and reprogramming brought it back.

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