irocinblue89
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I am at my wits end. This is going to be long so bear with me please. :
I changed my MRC decoder in my challenger to a tsunami. I tested it and all seemed fine. I put it back together and tried it out and it ran FANTASTIC (buy itself). When I put a load behind it (12 reefers) it wouldn't pull very well and the chuffs were way way out of synch. It even stalled on a small .75% grade. So I did some research and came to the conclusion that it was the board inside the loco itself interfering with the voltage. At 50% throttle I was reading 4-5 volts. Ok seems like the issue. I removed Athearns board, tested it and the same thing. (this is where i need help) If you hold the coupler on the tender the loco stalls very easily all the while the chuffs sound like it's going down the track without a care in the world.
So it must be a bind in the rods or somewhere. I removed the worm gears and it "rolls" very well. So well in fact if I put it on a slope it rolls down it. I have adjusted sooo many cv's that I now have it back to factory (cv8 to 8) and still the same. And to top it all off the # boards and headlight will not work... Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I changed my MRC decoder in my challenger to a tsunami. I tested it and all seemed fine. I put it back together and tried it out and it ran FANTASTIC (buy itself). When I put a load behind it (12 reefers) it wouldn't pull very well and the chuffs were way way out of synch. It even stalled on a small .75% grade. So I did some research and came to the conclusion that it was the board inside the loco itself interfering with the voltage. At 50% throttle I was reading 4-5 volts. Ok seems like the issue. I removed Athearns board, tested it and the same thing. (this is where i need help) If you hold the coupler on the tender the loco stalls very easily all the while the chuffs sound like it's going down the track without a care in the world.
So it must be a bind in the rods or somewhere. I removed the worm gears and it "rolls" very well. So well in fact if I put it on a slope it rolls down it. I have adjusted sooo many cv's that I now have it back to factory (cv8 to 8) and still the same. And to top it all off the # boards and headlight will not work... Any help will be greatly appreciated.
