Hello All,
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When I installed my ?NCE EB1¡¯s I tested my trains all when well.
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Today is the first day of running my trains after I changed all my Tortoise machines to use .037 wire.?? No electrical change was made
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Train 1 runs fine.? ?District 1
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Train 2 is my problem? District 2
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Train 3? District 3 ran fine had to trim the .037 wire on one switch for the engine to drive over the switch.
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Now for Train 2? when it hits a section of track the EB1 trips.? I lose power.
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So I reset the EB1 moved the train past the area and it ran fine.
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So I backed up the train and it tripped in another spot.
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That was right at where I have feeder connected to the buss for this district.
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Powered of the DCC system and removed the feeders from the buss.
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I then started Train 2 again and now it moved thru that spot but trips and the same spot as it did the first time.
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The spot in question is an Atlas switch.?? This is part of a double cross over with 4 Atlas switches.
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Remember I said above the Train 3 worked fine well that train goes thru the same double cross over as train 2 does passes over two of the 4 atlas switches.
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Now 2 of the 4 atlas switches have insulators on both rails. The plastic yellow ones.? Easier to see
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Both Train2 and Train 3 ran over this double cross over with no issue prior to the EB1 setup which requires insulation.
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So possible two problems here.
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1.?????? How can a feeder go bad?? Same size wire used on all my feeders ?Buss wire is new this year.
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2.?????? Train 2 trips circuit at a switch but goes over several over switches of the same make and model.? All Atlas?? which happen to be plastic frogs.?? And Train 2 has 6 wheels per truck.? ? ?I heard that smaller engines have issues on DCC? systems with switches that have plastic frogs.
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When I put my volt meter on the section of track it read the same level of volts thru out the section
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Any ideas or suggestions.
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Thank you
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Tom
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Tom Grassi
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