[Accrs-ho] Good Guys today and DCC problems

[ACCRS HO Scale]

I also noticed another problem. I was switching cars in the port today and noticed that one of the switches seems to be dead. Like it's not getting any power at all. It's the one that leads to the industrial spur tracks where all the grain cars are parked.I'll point out which one it is, but every time my train hits it, it shuts off and I have to move my train over it with my hand. There also seems to be a length of track within the intermodal terminal that is completely dead as well. It's the first track where containers can be loaded/unloaded at the port. Again, I'll point it out. But other than that, my train actually ran quite well today.

 - Jamie

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> On Jun 3, 2017, at 10:09 PM, ACCRS HO Scale <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
> 
> Message From: Gary Lewis  glgslewis at comcast.net
> 
> I was only there until noon today and by the time I left, everything was running great.  However, there were a couple glitches earlier.  Camera 5, which gives you the view of the 35 switch area wasn’t working on any monitor.  I didn’t have time to fool with the connections, which hopefully is the only problem.  The turn table doesn’t move.  We also had the second occurrence of an NCE throttle not responding while all the cell phone operators had no problem.  We had this problem last Friday where no NCE throttles would work while the cell phones continued to work.  Ernest had the problem during the week.  He tried three club throttles and his own, and nothing would work.  My throttle flat lined at speed step 28 today and would not respond.  Had to kill the block.  After a couple minutes everything went back to normal.  Again the cell phone throttles were unaffected. 
>  
> Ed, you may know more about the interface between the NCE throttles and the cell phone throttles and the base station than anyone.  We need someone who knows this system to take a look at it and try to make sense out of it.  We may need to contact NCE to get their input.  We cannot have this happening during the fair.  If needed, I can all NCE, but I don’t consider myself to be an expert on the system.  Jere Ingram might also have some input.  BTW, the solution is not to use cell phone throttles only.  Anyone, feel free to chime in. 
>  
> I almost forgot, the thunderstorm is plugged into the HO house light circuit which is a problem when those lights are shut off (along with the thunderstorm) and the color lights adjusted to give a night time lighting scenario.  We need to find another place to plug in the thunderstorm. 
>  
> Better to find these issues now than during the fair.
>  
> Gary
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