Bad BCR2? Engine not on track

Most likely your BCR2 is bad. A good test is to power up the locomotive  so that you can hear it idle. Then cut the power to the track and the sounds should continue to play for about 8 to 10 seconds as the engine will complete a shutdown sequence. if the sound cuts before that finishes, the BCR (or battery) is not holding enough charge for the engine to complete shutdown tasks, one of which is to record the engine ID if it was newly assigned into the memory.

BCR2 are cheap to make yourself if you want. Here's a nice thread on the topic: https://ogrforum.com/...lone-circuit-diagram

H1000 posted:

Most likely your BCR2 is bad. A good test is to power up the locomotive  so that you can hear it idle. Then cut the power to the track and the sounds should continue to play for about 8 to 10 seconds as the engine will complete a shutdown sequence.

Thanks.  I'll test that now.

Or the harness is bad, or the board battery control went bad.  G

Well, now I can't replicate the issue.  I put the BCR2 back in yesterday and it fired right up.  I tried it again this morning and this afternoon and it continues to work perfectly.  Perhaps a bad harness or the board battery control issue can be intermittent?  Otherwise, my only guess is maybe I didn't have a good connection before but now I do.  Until it happens again, I'll have to blame a loose connection.  Seems unlikely though with those little molex connectors.  Oh well.

Probably was a connection. G