I started this hobby (I have several others) back in January of this year and all is proceeding well with the exception of several of my locos not having their headlights come on from time to time. More specifically, I model in N scale and have installed a few decoders into Kato, Atlas, and Intermountain locomotives and most of the time they all work fine. However, sometimes the headlights on some of my locomotives won't come on. I use an NCE Power Cab and no matter how many times I press the "Headlight" button when the locos are not displaying the headlight, it won't come on. I have done decoder resets before and sometimes - like today - when I re-programmed the locomotive (Kato F7 A unit) the headlight will work when I press the button but when I put it into a consist (advanced consist) with the B unit the headlight won't come on. The consist runs fine and I've no complaints there but I'm frustrated not being able to figure out why no headlight when I run the F7A and F7B in a consist.
I have a very small layout (3' x 5') in my dining area and am considering building a larger layout in my garage but I'd like to get to know a little more about how to fix/solve the problems I run into like the one I'm asking about on this forum now.
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
I have a very small layout (3' x 5') in my dining area and am considering building a larger layout in my garage but I'd like to get to know a little more about how to fix/solve the problems I run into like the one I'm asking about on this forum now.
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike