I have a K-line tank engine and noticed that the antenna has an issue with interference when it is near another engine or a close by track (headlight flickers, commands are not responsive from the remote etc.)
I have laid out earth ground around all of my tracks and have thoroughly checked to confirm it is isolated. All of my other engines are fine. Is this a "board" issue that needs to be replaced? If so, what would that be?
Greg
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That's typically the R2LC board, that's the TMCC receiver. FWIW, I have a number of K-Line locomotives, diesel and steam. They have exhibited the most sensitivity to marginal TMCC signals on my layout. I never saw any issue with Lionel, Atlas, Weaver TMCC or Legacy engines, but three or four of the K-Line locomotives had issues running under my second level. I added an earth ground on the bottom of the second level deck and all was sell.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:That's typically the R2LC board, that's the TMCC receiver. FWIW, I have a number of K-Line locomotives, diesel and steam. They have exhibited the most sensitivity to marginal TMCC signals on my layout. I never saw any issue with Lionel, Atlas, Weaver TMCC or Legacy engines, but three or four of the K-Line locomotives had issues running under my second level. I added an earth ground on the bottom of the second level deck and all was sell.
So would purchasing a new R2LC board fix the problem?
@Gregcz1 posted:So would purchasing a new R2LC board fix the problem?
It may, but I'd first swap one in from another TMCC engine to see if that solves the problem.
You also need to check you do not have an antenna grounding to chassis. G
I suspect if the antenna were grounded, it wouldn't be recognized at all by TMCC.
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