trainboy Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Hi all, One of my A class locos is not powering the stay alive capacitor. The unit runs ok on the track, but when removed , the power stops right away. Anyone know if this could be related to some decoder cv settings? thanks, brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 what type of decoder are you using? it only works with esu decoders as far as i know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 (edited) Hi Brendan, Happened to my one too, Changed the CV's on it, worked for a bit and it now has gone back to not working again. TBH given it is 6 Wheel pick ups the Stay alive is not really needed once your track is clean. This was the advise from a FB page: "The CV value for 113 was 0, Strange as I had not done any programming on this at all. Anyway set it to 127 and it works again" No one from IRM chanced to pop onto my initial query to comment either and yes these were IRM supplied Decoders so I wonder is this a fleet issue? Happened to my Deltic too. Hope the abocve helps Edited March 7, 2023 by Georgeconna 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainboy Posted March 7, 2023 Author Share Posted March 7, 2023 George, Thanks for the info….think I have a decoder I bought from Marks, I’ll have to check. regards, brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgeconna Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 On 7/3/2023 at 8:36 PM, trainboy said: George, Thanks for the info….think I have a decoder I bought from Marks, I’ll have to check. regards, brendan Is it a IRM issue decoder for the A class or Generic 21 Pin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BosKonay Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 On 7/3/2023 at 12:54 PM, Georgeconna said: Hi Brendan, Happened to my one too, Changed the CV's on it, worked for a bit and it now has gone back to not working again. TBH given it is 6 Wheel pick ups the Stay alive is not really needed once your track is clean. This was the advise from a FB page: "The CV value for 113 was 0, Strange as I had not done any programming on this at all. Anyway set it to 127 and it works again" No one from IRM chanced to pop onto my initial query to comment either and yes these were IRM supplied Decoders so I wonder is this a fleet issue? Happened to my Deltic too. Hope the abocve helps Not one we’ve seen reported tho we have seen voltage spikes with some controllers cause partial resets. a Chip reset or stay alive switch on again will always resolve. We’re working with ESU to add more over voltage protection on the pcb for future runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dangerous Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 3 hours ago, BosKonay said: Not one we’ve seen reported tho we have seen voltage spikes with some controllers cause partial resets. a Chip reset or stay alive switch on again will always resolve. We’re working with ESU to add more over voltage protection on the pcb for future runs. Future runs of... 071's? GSR800's? Arrows 'n' Sparrows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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