I have had the Legacy system for five years and have had no issues. I took a three month hiatus from "playing with trains" due to officiating high school football. I have a two loop track system with numerous turnouts. My layout is 7' by 14'--designed as a display layout-lots of action. I turned my system on expecting problems with dirty track and wheels. I started the trains up and all of a sudden the headlight on my outside loop started flickering--signal loss. The inside loop was okay for a while, then the train just stopped. I completely cleaned all of the track and also cleaned the wheels on the locos. I checked the wiring and it seemed fine. I have two 135watt power bricks and two 135 Power Masters including the "Bridge" to complete the system. Even with clean wheels and track cleaned, I still had problems. If I wiggled the female jack of the Legacy transformer that connects to the Legacy Base and it seemed to help(don't understand that at all since there was no problem with electrical interruptions and the remote was sending signals to the base okay). I changed frequencies and everything cleared up-until last night. I have the V1.3 update. Six years ago I had issues with signal loss (TMCC at the time) between two metal bridges. I followed the instructions in an issue of OGR concerning grounding and the problem cleared up. I have the Legacy attached to a separate circuit not connected to the same circuit as all other stuff on my layout. Any of you electronic wizards have any idea what the heck is going on? Has anyone else experienced this?
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