Engine not on track or engine runs away.

Is your Challenger seeing the DCS signal while on the programming track?  Do your other engines run okay on your tracks?

This Forum Topic may help.  DCS System Setup Tips

This tip card will help me do all Setup items.  Maybe it can help others.

" TIU System Setup Tips
 from 5th Edition of MTH Operator's Manual

TIU Power and ID - P. 8
    Power Indicator - "Red LED light blinks at initial power up. The TIU address
         corresponds to the number of times the Red LED Blinks."

Remote Setup - P. 79 (see note at page bottom.)
      at REMOTE MESSAGES - click softkey ON
      at OPERATING MODE - choose SPEED or NORMAL (try best one for you)

TIU Setup (for every Remote) - P. 73
       With TIU power on, Edit TIUs one at a time.  
          at Super TIU click SUPER TIU

DCS Setup (for each TIU)
      P. 74   Choose AON (All On for DCS signal).
          AOF (All Off for DCS signal, NOT All On Fixed),
          Set each Variable Output to FXD (fixed) one at a time."

Thanks Susan. Sorry I haven't responded sooner been a lot week at work and I just spent all day trouble shooting the layout. Having troubles with all the engines. They must see the dcs signal as they aren't running away now but track 2 now seems to be having a problem locating the engine. I have the remote teathered to the TIU. Finds engines on track 3 great but when I try to find an engine on track 2 it takes a while (remote is unresponsive at this time). When it finally finds the engine and I try to start it, after a while I get a TIU error, engine start, I get an engine not on track error. Now I can't get it do anything for a while then it will move but no horn. It's like there is a lag.

Still working on it. I have another TIU to try but I think there might be a wiring problem.

I'd first try the other TIU, it's easy.

Something else that is confusing me. I'm getting an "out of RF range" with the remote tethered to the TIU, seems odd to me.

Barry, It is a 4-conductor cable. Seems to run the train on track 3 great but when I run the signal strength test I get the RF message and not at the same places on the layout. Next time I get to work on the layout I'm going to start checking cable connections for loose wires also.

My layout is in my basement, it is heated but colder now that winter is here than normal. Wonder if that is affecting the track connectors too. I was getting 9's and 10's all around and now it's all over the place.

If the TIU has a signal out issue, or probably in your case a TIU DCS Receiver issue. The engine will see a signal and respond, but can not communicate back to the TIU and be heard.  SO you get an out of range message.  So if already added, you can startup and activate features and run, but if you need the engine to talk back and be heard like DCS SS test, an Add function, or Info request.  You will get an out of range.

Get a TIU that you know is working and verify your layout and engine work fine.  If so, and it does not work on the other TIU it has a defect.

It is possible one or more channels receive, but one or more do not.  G

Thanks G. I recently moved my control panel and made the wires longer, everything worked right away. I'm going to try jumping past the control panel and do a direct connect to the layout and see if I messed up with wires that may be too long. I've been pondering tearing down the entire layout and build it with DCS in mind this time and not added in afterwards, along with other things I've learned along the way. Might be time for that to happen.