I have a Black Label A4 (Wild Swan) which is a lovely model but is causing me problems on my layout. It is highly prone to stopping/resetting unless my track is spotless and completely level.
I have over twenty other DCC locos which are a mixture of Hornby and Bachmann and they all run perfectly on my layout.
It appears that Wild Swan only has electrical pickups on the tender and then only the first two wheels on one side and the rear two wheels on the other. As these wheels are close together, it means that the slightest variation in trackwork can cause a reset of the decoder. My other locos have pickups on either the drive wheels (Bachmann) or both driving wheels and all tender wheels (Hornby).
I suspect that some kind of "keep-alive" capacitor would help but I am reluctant to try dismantling the loco.
Is anyone else aware of this problem?
I have over twenty other DCC locos which are a mixture of Hornby and Bachmann and they all run perfectly on my layout.
It appears that Wild Swan only has electrical pickups on the tender and then only the first two wheels on one side and the rear two wheels on the other. As these wheels are close together, it means that the slightest variation in trackwork can cause a reset of the decoder. My other locos have pickups on either the drive wheels (Bachmann) or both driving wheels and all tender wheels (Hornby).
I suspect that some kind of "keep-alive" capacitor would help but I am reluctant to try dismantling the loco.
Is anyone else aware of this problem?
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