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Why does my DCC loco die at every turnout
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[quote user="Don Gibson"] <p>BEAS:</p><p>Good points. Still no word on engines or wheel arrangement.</p><p>I'm going to guess it's the lack of electrical wheel pickup on the <u>one</u> engine over the dead frogs. You?</p><p>So much for 'Dead frog' turnouts and engines with rubber tires for more 'pull'.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Let's break it down even further...</p><p>1- BLI does not make anything smaller than a 2-8-2 in steam</p><p>2- Let's leave off desiels for now, if there is going to be a problem at the switch, it will happen to steam first.</p><p>3- I used a Roundhouse 4-4-0 MRC decoder for a time until scrapped. That engine really only had the tender pickups and the one drive axle pickup... very poor method of pickups due to traction tire. That engine did not give me any trouble on the katos.</p><p>I do use a NW either by itself or paired with another NW. That does not give trouble either. It is the shortest BLI Desiel I own. If it is going to hit trouble it will do it at the frog of a switch.</p><p>Assuming for the moment that there is no flaws or change in horizonal or vertical planes of the switch and nearby tracks large rigid wheel base engines SHOULD make it across these switches at any speed.</p><p>Assuming that we are dealing with a switch without a powered frog... at some point below a certain speed the engine WILL stall.</p><p>With these truths self evident, what are we left with Gentlemen?</p><p>1- Plastic or non powered frog.</p><p>2- Flaws in track work</p><p>3- Steam engine wheelbase too long for the switch.</p><p>4- Wheels shorting on another rail like what happened to Selector on his switches.</p><p>What I dont know is the WHAT ENGINE?</p><p> </p>
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