One thing i would check is that the warmer weather hasn't made your rail expand out and make contact despite the insulated joiner, i had a phantom short when one point was set one way and scratched my head over it for an hour before realizing i just needed to put a small flat screwdriver in between the two rails and turn to separate them,,, that was job done,,,,

Do you have frog switching on your points, and if so how do you do it? 

Do all loco's exhibit the same problems on the same piece of track or are they performing differently?

Mark

Quote from: OwL729 on June 07, 2012, 10:25:12 PM
Tim,

I'm not a million miles away as you know, so if you need I will have a look but please remember I model DC so it could well be the blind leading the blind.

Send us a text if you want me to pop round one night- two heads may be better than one!

Hi

DCC and DC wiring are in essence the same, you might like to use thicker wires for DCC.

I have in the past successfully unplugged a DC controller and plugged in a DCC one without making any changes.

Cheers

Paul

hi everyone!

many many thanks for the replies!

some locos do not create short circuits whilst other do. i have checked the back to backs on them all though.

yes i will check the droppers are to the right bus wire, and the irl's in place and no rails touching... i may even replace the point that seems to be the worst offender and see what happens then...

re the class 47, i am going to take it apart, adjust the pick ups, clean the wheel backs, and see what happens. currently it does stutter around the layout, but it stops a few times, where as my class 24 and 25 go round fine, so i know it is the loco.

today will be all about resolving running issues!!!

cheers for the help


tim

hi everyone

short circuits - i checked all the track, feeder wires, irjs etc. i think the problem is caused by dmu's coming over the points at a certain angle that causes the wheels to touch both blade and stock rail, and so short circuit. it is my class 108 and class 150 that are the offenders. the dmu's will run through the points in some positions / directions but not others. very annoying!

faulty class 47 - it does now run after cleaning with alcohol and some coaxing round the layout a few times.

the layout is not running that great, i really think that the carrs rail clean did something bad to it.

cheers


tim