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Help me troubleshoot this decoder--final (almost) resolution 5-16
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I still think it's a dirty connection rather than a faulty decoder....It happens at our module club shows. Especially towards the end of the day. Some locos have no trouble with the track being clean or not. For example. <br /> <br />A little story. <br />I was running a friends SP steam local for about an hour. Flawlessly runs around the 46 x 64 layout. Everyone else seems fine then bam I start stalling on someones module. No one else was...gave it a little push and it continued on. Came back around same thing. Ran a cloth of alcohol over the area and it ran fine again. I asked why when it stops the head lamp was still on...the answer...I guess it still is getting enough juice to light the light. Made sense to me anyway. <br /> <br />Also thought of something else. My friend has a large basement layout. He had similar problems and discovered he had a dead feeder wire. Just thought I would mention this.
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