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[mrvegas]

Hello, I am new here and new to model railroading also.

I have an engine with a DH123D HO Scale Mobile Decoder. I am currently waiting for my super chief to arrive so I do not have a DCC system to test with.

I ran this DCC Engine on a DC track just fine, then I placed it on another track and the engine seemed to not be able to go at full throttle and stuttered a bit. Then the engine stopped and the overload light lit up. I took the engine off the track, investigated the track and engine for debris and found nothing. I place the engine on the track again and gave it throttle and the overload light lit once again. I removed the engine body to look over the wires and everything seemed to be fine. I placed the engine on the track and gave throttle once again to see the overload light lit. I removed the engine once agian and I happened to touch the decoder and it was hot.

Other engines seem to run fine on this track with no problem of overloading.

I do not have access to another track at the moment so I can not test the DCC engine on another track.

I was just wondering if anyone has had experience with this issue and could maybe shed some light on it for me.

thanks for any info,
Matthew

[chad thomas]

Welcome to the forum Matthew. Try asking this on the model railroader forum. That's the one for model train stuff. And I wouldn't keep putting power to the loco till you figure out the problem (sound like the decoder is bad) as you may do more damage.

[mrvegas]

ok, thanks for the reply.
I started looking around the forums and noticed that I may have posted in the wrong forum.

I just didnt want to double post.

mod/admin: please feel free to remove this post.

thanks
Matthew