BLI & DCC Problem

[tommyr]

Hi There;
I have a BLI Heavy Mikado. My club is using A CVP EASY DCC system. When I unplug the walkaround to move to another jack The loco slows to a stop & goes into the neutral state. When I plug into new location it takes off at original speed setting. I contacted manufacturer & he said BLI sets thier locos to do this if it doese not recieve a signal for 2 seconds. He sai d to set CV11 To zreo from2. I did & that cured the problem -- not quite. Loco continued running but whistle was all screwed up. When I pushed the button all I got was a series of very short distorted blasts. So I phoned BLI & spoke to a tech who had never heard of CVP. He told me to set CV 11 for 20 seconds. I removed the jumper in the tender to restore factory defaults. So doese anybody know how I can get this loco to keep running?
Sorry this is so long -wanted to give as much info as possible
Tom

[cacole]

I have a CVP Easy DCC system and BLI locomotives and the symptoms you are describing are a glitch in the network into which you're plugging the walk-around controller. Whoever installed the LAN around the club layout possibly has something wrong with their wiring, which causes a spurious signal to be sent to the command station when you unplug the controller.

Check the locomotive on a home or other club layout and see if that doesn't cure the problems you're having. If the locomotive runs with no problems, then the cause is definitely in the network on the club's layout.

[tommyr]

cacole
Thanx for your reply. Mine is the only BLI in the clu.b. All the other decoder equiped locos work fine. Sounds like the glitch only affects high tech BLI's. I will try to find someone with DCC to try it out.
Tom

[Anonymous]

I would suggest the wiring at the club as well. I use all BLI engines, and I am using a Lenz 100 DCC system. I can unplug my system, and it continues with its last command until I replug in the throttle and issue a new command. Our model railroad club is using NCE for DCC and it works just as well as my Lenz system. I have seen no problems with BLI. The plug ins around the layout should all be daisy chained together. Isolate them one by one from the furthest point and plug into the furthest "active" jack, and eventually you will find which one is wired backwards. Best of luck.

[rrinker]

Unless there is some configuration settng in EasyDCC that tells the comamnd station to stop sending to a loco address after the handheld is pulled from the plug. Normally, until the loco is dispatched or unselected in some fashion, the command station continues to generate speed, direction,a nd function packets for it, regardless of the handheld status, at least until some sort of timeout, which is usually plenty of time to move from one plug location to another. Perhaps this setting was changed to a ridiculously low number on this system, so that nearly as soon as you unplug, the loco goes inactive in the command station, no packets are addressed to it, and the QSI decoder does its stop thing.

--Randy