I just got the BL P@ series C&O T-1 2-10-4 #3020. W Paragon 2 Sound/DC/DCC. I also have the NCE Power Cab control.I put it on track.. it starts steaming.. then I have to wait.. and wait and sometime it just goes, after I power cycle the Power Cab. Otherwise it just sits... and sits. I figured it needed to warm up.. but not this long. Im thinnking I have a defunct Loco. I just got it brand new off EBAY. its in perfect shape, dont see any wear on the wheels. thoughts?
Did you program it on the program track? What did you put in for momentum (CV3)?
Check the plug to the loco from the tender. Make darn sure it is firmly set. If that does not cure the problem turn the smoke unit off by the switch and see if the loco moves. Some of the smoke units have burnt out and shorts out the loco.
Pete
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I started with nothing and still have most of it left!
Are you adding a speed step incrementally, as in a single one at a time? Sometimes a new loco is 'sticky' and won't move until you either adjust the BEMF upward, or another variable in another CV that some call 'kick-start'. When it goes, does it step smartly, somewhat faster than you had intended?
Once you have it addressed, and the sounds controlled so that they are tolerable, your next step should be to enter Ops Mode and go into CV2. That is V-Start. You can add values to that CV incrementally until your loco just begins to turn its drivers on that first speed step. The process is to dial in the speed step, and then enter programming on the main, enter CV2, and input a 10. Does the loco budge? If it lurches into motion, halve that to 5. And so on, bracketing until you find a value that lets the loco start up very slowly on that first dialled speed step once you have left programming.
I have a QSI Titan in a Bachmann Spectrum metal 4-8-2. I kid you not, I think its CV2 value is something like 45. It's far and away higher than any other loco I have, probably twice the next one. But, it does move on speed step 'one' and is consistent. It also accelerates properly with inertia in CV3 and slows on CV4's values. I don't know that it's damaging the decoder. I suspect I'll have to drop that value quite a bit as the loco gets two, three, and four hours of actual towing time on it.
-Crandell
You could try a factory reset to default settings on that locomotive, maybe that will help?
-Khang Lu, University of Minnesota Railroad Club
Make sure the plug from the tender to the loco is securely plugged in.
The tender will make noises just sitting on the track (they pick up power from botht he loco and tender) but it will never move.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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