Improving loco running
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:21 pm
Folks
I have an aged 0-4-0ST - Hornby made in China - the blue CR livery loco, which I am using to test all my track and electro-frog points during the course of building my layout. The theory being that if that loco runs smoothly on all track, then so will everything else. All track is DCC, and the 0-4-0 is fitted with a TCS decoder which is probably about 10 years old. The loco runs remarkably well, especially since I have activated CV 182 which means the loco runs very smoothly all over the speed range for such a relatively numb beast. One small complaint. It does take a while to move on low speed setting 1 or 2, as if the imaginary loco crew are finishing their cigarettes or something! I have adjusted CV2 to the lowest setting so it does actually move on speed setting 1, but sometimes it refuses to move at all. To this end I have adjusted kick start CV65, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any clues how I can avoid the loco intermittently stalling please? I have tried dither - CV56 and 57- but this would seem to deactivate CV182 and as such it runs nowhere near as well at speed and stutters significantly more.
I have an aged 0-4-0ST - Hornby made in China - the blue CR livery loco, which I am using to test all my track and electro-frog points during the course of building my layout. The theory being that if that loco runs smoothly on all track, then so will everything else. All track is DCC, and the 0-4-0 is fitted with a TCS decoder which is probably about 10 years old. The loco runs remarkably well, especially since I have activated CV 182 which means the loco runs very smoothly all over the speed range for such a relatively numb beast. One small complaint. It does take a while to move on low speed setting 1 or 2, as if the imaginary loco crew are finishing their cigarettes or something! I have adjusted CV2 to the lowest setting so it does actually move on speed setting 1, but sometimes it refuses to move at all. To this end I have adjusted kick start CV65, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any clues how I can avoid the loco intermittently stalling please? I have tried dither - CV56 and 57- but this would seem to deactivate CV182 and as such it runs nowhere near as well at speed and stutters significantly more.