Cab-1 and Signal

I never observed that condition when I had a cab1. You might want to take it apart and see if one of the circuit boards has a crack in it.

Ron

Rick,

 Just to let you know... The Cab-1 communicates with the Command Base, not the engine.

 My suggestion, not knowing how old your batteries are, is to give your batteries a spin, or in other words make sure the contacts are clean. Also make sure you are using the power supply that came with your Command Base, ( 3 prong) and have it in a 3 prong outlet. These are the two basic things I have found that make a big difference when you have communication issues.

Hope this helps.

Bill K 

Bill and Ron,

   Thanks for your replies. Some of your suggestions I have already tried. Batteries have been replaced repeatedly thinking maybe I had a bad batch. The Command Base is two feet from where I stand. I even would touch the base with the antenna and as long as I held the controller where I should it would not send the signal. I do not think any board is cracked, but I will try and take the remote apart. Just maybe a wire as been detached from the antenna. Either that or I have discovered that I have some type of bionic power. Again, thank you for your help.

Rick

Check the battery terminals as well, they tend to become flattened over time and do not make good contact with the battery ends. You can pry them out a bit with a small flatblade screwdriver.

Also make sure you are using the power supply that came with your Command Base, ( 3 prong) and have it in a 3 prong outlet. These are the two basic things I have found that make a big difference when you have communication issues.

Hope this helps.

Bill K  (This one  is important.gregg)

I had the same problems. I had 3 command bases and 2 cab ones trying to figure out a combination that would work with decent range. about 20 ft was the best I ever got and as time went on it dropped to about 3 feet. It is not batteries or 3 prong adaptors or anything else, they just all went bad. I finally quit using them all together. I installed JMRI on my Macintosh computer, use panel pro to control everyting on the layout, installed a usb to rs232 cable from the Mac to the computer port on the command base and I use the wiThrottle app on my iPhones and use them as throttles for the TMCC locos. That works real well. Have my whole roster in JMRI so they all come up on the iphone and I just select them by the locomotive number and away you go.