Y6b DCC acting strange...

[icemanrulz]

Have a BLI Y6b and run a lenz set 100 DCC system.  When running this loco only if I hit the "STOP"

key or E Stop the Y6b just keeps going as if I did nothing.  If I step the speed down it stops fine.

I am very new to DCC so I must be missing something.

Thanks for any pointers.

[cacole]

This sounds like a fault with the Lenz DCC system and not the locomotive's decoder.  I've never used a Lenz system, but the Emergency Stop should immediately shut down the entire layout.

[CSX Robert]

I believe the default setting for the Stop button on Lenz is to put the layout in "emergency stop" mode(power on, but the only mobile decoder packets sent are "global emergency stop" packets).  It sounds like the BLI decoder is not responding to the "global emergency stop" packet.  Although ALL deocders are supposed to respond to it,  I know of at least one other(MRC decoder in an Athearn Challneger) that does not.

[locoi1sa]

   In the Lenz manual there is a section on configuring the E stop button. It is good to set it to kill track power.

      Pete

[Hamltnblue]

Some systems default with the stop button only controlling the loco associated with the controller. Hitting the stop button would shut track power down.

Whatever the Lenz system is capable of, it's a good idea to find out before you need it.

[tbdanny]

I use the Lenz system, and CSX Robert is correct - the default is to just send a universal stop packet to the active loco.  This was the first thing I changed with the system, setting it so that it kills all track power on emergency stop.  This comes in handy for clearing derailments, too.