[Accrs-ho] Good Guys today and DCC problems
ACCRS HO Scale
accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org
Sun Jun 4 10:26:42 PDT 2017
Ok thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look at the computer and/or call
nce as needed.
Ed Carreno
925-519-4796
On Jun 3, 2017 11:05 PM, "ACCRS HO Scale" <accrs-ho at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
> Message From: Jamie West bayarearailfan at gmail.com
>
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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