DCS "dropping" a locomotive ...?

Does the engine run fine in conventional?  If you change direction and the engine shuts down and restarts you still could have a bad, battery,  bad wire connection, 2 pin plug out, or a failure of the battery control system on the Power Supply board.

G

I find it unlikely that the engine is the actual problem. Once a remote adds an engine, it stays in the remote regardless of the engine's ability to change its own DCS ID# permanently.

Some questions:

• What version of DCS are you running? Is it the asme in both the remote and the TIU?
• What is the engine's DCS ID# when its adds? If it's 99, that could be the problem.

Try adding the engine and then changing its DCS ID# immediately. Power the remote off and then back on and see if the problem persists.

Barry, I'm on 4.2 on all components.

The message that comes up when it adds is "engine id changed" like it knows it's already in there, but it doesn't respond so it changes the id ...

Adding it sets it right.

The battery is full up charge.

Really strange!

Kerrigan,

First, ensure that the engine's battery is fully charged.

Then, add the engine and then, regardless of what the engine says is its DCS ID#,  change its DCS ID# immediately to something else altogether. Power the remote off and then back on and see if the problem persists.

If that doesn't correct the problem:

• Add the engine one more time
• Do a Factory Reset of the engine: Menu/Advanced/Reset Engine/Factory Reset. This will remove it from the remote.
• Add it again, power the remote off and then back on, and see if the problem persists.

Thanks Barry, that seems to have resolved it.

Also, as I was doing this I discovered two more entries for this locomotive in the inactive list, with different ID numbers in addition to the one in the active list ... ghost engines ...