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Went to run trains at my club (San Diego 3-Railers) and these events occured:

1. My Santa Fe Railking Ten Wheeler 30-1589-1 was backing up and suddenly the tether started flaming up. Looked under no significant damage but is smells, possibly the board in the tender is dead. Question is my engine toast? Also, has this happened to any of your Proto 3.0 steamers?

2. My two SD-70ACe 30-4194-1 and 30-4214-1 decide to say to me " I hate you" and did not want to load into the DCS Remote after they were on logged earlier. They ran under conventional transformer perfectly. However my Proto 3.0 Galloping Goose ran perfect. I am gonna take the two SD-70ACe to my other club and try them there. I tried recovering my loco and reading the track numerous times and nothing happened. I bet it is the TIU reception

 

My question is for those who belongs to a club that is kinda permanent: I believe that our TIUs have a really weak signal at my club because we are in the basement of the San Diego Model Railroad Museum and we have atenas in the ceiling but I really think they don't work some times. What do you guys do to improve the reception?

If my SD-70ACe decide to not load at the other club's layout, I might have to cancel my preorder of my 2 Railking ES44AC because the repairs needed to my three locos.

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I hate running DCS at SD3railers. Always have issues no matter what engine I take and don't bother trying to run a lash up there. My guess is your engines are fine... except maybe the ten wheeler. That layout was wired for DCS in such a strange way... there is no logical explanation for it. Its 10 times more complicated than it should be.

There is no easy way to fix it, thats why they haven't done it.
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The Santa Fe steam engine doesn't sound good...may want to have an MTH certified tech check it out. 

 

I belong to the National Capital Trackers. I've often had engines do screwy things due to low signal. It always works/worked (when I had DCS set up at home) just fine. Likely you won't have any issues with the diesels. If they run fine at home in DCS and/or Conventional, they likely are fine. 

 

We have rewired all modules. In addition, new TIUs and equipment are in use. I've also seen filters and lightbulbs used with reasonable success. 

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