Quote from: Joe Satnik on December 21, 2008, 11:45:46 PM
Dear Java,

Sounds like a nice set. 

Your symptoms are not normal. 

Have you lubed you loco with plastic compatible oils and grease? 

Labelle lubes are good.  I own #'s 102, 106 and 108. 

Bachmann lubes are good too, though it might take some searching to find them..

Could be a bad controller.  Measure the voltage at the track:

1.) with no engine and the controller to full.
2.) near the controller with the engine running.
3.) far away from the controller with the engine running.

You could try your loco on another layout with known good controller...

Let us know your results. 

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik 

Here is the reading I got....

1:)  20.5 vdc
2:)  14.3 vdc
3:)  14.3 vdc

Will post on those suggestions tommorow night son and I will do the test together after I get home from work..

Thank you

My son just got this set for Xmas, I set it up for him the train operates as per it should. The issues is the controller, the train will start to move at 60% up to 100% (seems slow at 100%) but nothing will happen below 60%, Guess m question is, is this normal?

Thanks for your respones...Chuck