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Engines speed slowing down
SWA737:
Well gentlemen, I am embarrassed to say I found the problem. In troubleshooting everything I told you all the track was clean. Apparently it was not. My genesis engines ran very poorly as well. I did a sample area of the track and discovered how dirty it was. I had only cleaned it in the fall but, I had recently done some electrical work in the drop ceiling installing some additional lighting. I guess it was just enough debris falling to create an issue. I’m sorry I wasted everyone’s time helping me troubleshoot things.
Lesson learned. It does seem like after four years operating the Railpro system, it is much more sensitive to electrical issues whether it’s dirty track, dirty wheels or any kind of low-voltage than the conventional DCC systems I have had in the past. I very much love Railpro but, that is one issue I have found that has been a bit of a challenge over the years even with keep alives installed on all of my engines. I did purchase two nice atlas engines recently and getting ready to convert them over to Railpro. This time I’m going to try Ring engineering keep alive modules and see if it helps the situation more than the TCS keep alives I have installed on all of my other engines.
Again, thanks for everyone’s help. This is a great forum.
Rob Cooper
William Brillinger:
Glad you found the problem Rob!
SWA737:
Thanks Bill
nodcc4me:
I’m glad you resolved it, but I don’t understand why they took 15 minutes to shut down and then recovered.
Yes, RP is very sensitive to dirty track. My track, running on RP power supply, is spotless, so the engines run well most of the time, but when I run on a DCC layout where the track doesn’t stay as clean, I have had problems.
SWA737:
The only thing I could possibly think about the 15 minute cool down and they’re back up and running is, and I am not an electrical engineer, I know just enough about it to get me in trouble but, I believe as voltage goes down amperage would go up causing things to heat up? I’m sure somebody on this forum can correct me if I’m wrong. That’s my only thought process for why the engines start running again after they’ve been power down for a little bit after attempting to run over the dirty track and pushing through.
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