How about just clipping a coil or two out of the spring? Remove a coil or two at a time until you get it to where it tracks well.

-Brian

Its pretty simple to do. I have a TE battery car though I use conventional packs as you can get higher capacity ones than most tool batteries. Here's a good site for doing it -  http://ovgrs.org/ then click on Battery Power and then the Power Cars.

-Brian

Quote from: cpaul on June 18, 2008, 06:36:36 PM
I'm planning a simple oval (5' x 14') on a raised flower bed and thought I would experiment with using a rechargeable battery connected through a rheostat to to supply track voltage, and eventually move to R/C with on-board battery power.

CM

A typical battery pack used for trains will not work to power your track. Its takes a lot more juice to power track than just a loco and your pack would quickly drain. You can do it with a big gel cell type battery (like a car battery).

-Brian

Deleting the old cookies seems to work.

-Brian

Dear Mr. Bach-Man,

Ever since the new forum came into being, I am unable to participate in it with my Firefox browser. I get error messages when I try to post and it shows me as logged in but I am unable to log out and log back in. IE seems to work though. 

-Brian

Its a small shop but they usually get it right (more or less) after a bit.

-Brian

Do the lights act properly on other layouts?
Do you have the TE trackside receiver set on Linear or Pulse Width?

-Brian

I have seen this happen with LEDs head lights and a PWM power supply. The reverse LED will flicker a bit. It has something to do with AC leak through or something like that. Are the head lights LEDs? and what power supply are you using? Many Aristo power supplies are PWM.

-Brian

Quote from: az2rail on May 24, 2008, 10:31:41 AM
I don't which version you have, but I was told that early version shays had plastic gears, which caused drive issues. Later versions came with diecast gearing. If this is your problem, you can buy the replacements. They come in a set of two rucks, and you fust replace the whole thing.

I also just bought one, and I asked the dealer if it came with the upgrade trucks or not. I have not tested it yet, maybe I should, being as I have another one coming also.

Bruce

They all have the same gears. The difference is the outer case. Original versions were plastic. New version (available seperately) is diecast.

-Brian

Take a look at this thread for some tips -
http://www.mylargescale.com/Community/Forums/tabid/56/forumid/23/postid/27602/view/topic/Default.aspx

-Brian

Not to gloat but repeating my previous comment -

To quote P.T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute!"   

-Brian

A lot of folks tend to blame the loco for derailing when the culprit is sloppy track work, granted some locos are more tolerant of sloppy track work than others (just ask Marty Cozad about his BigBoy). I have never had this problem with my unmodified ten wheeler on my layout. You often only get the complaints on forums and never hear from the many more who don't have problems.

-Brian

NTD at Washington's Union Station was packed with train fans most of the day. Everyone was quite pleased with the turnout. We were so busy I had little chance to see the other displays and events.

Some pix of the WVMGRS display -

the calm before the storm



and during the event -















-Brian

NTD at Washington's Union Station was packed with train fans most of the day. Everyone was quite pleased with the turnout. We were so busy I had little chance to see the other displays and events.

Some pix of the WVMGRS display -

the calm before the storm



and during the event -















-Brian

Quote from: tac on May 08, 2008, 03:07:39 PM
If you are using TRACK POWER then you do not need to install ANYTHING in the locomotive.  The Train Engineer handheld transmitter sends a radio signal to the trackside unit, telling it how much power to apply to the track and in which direction.

This is why so many folks use the hand-held TE and the trackside unit - it works with any track-power locomotive in any scale.

What you have is for remote operation with on-board battery power - NOT for TRACK power.

tac
www.ovgrs.org

There are plenty of guys using the on board TE receiver with track power. Similar to DCC except using radio control instead of thru the rail signals.

-Brian