wizz-bang
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Ken, I've never had a Tortoise misbehave as you are describing, and frankly, I'm shocked that you (might) have "a few" of them (not sure if that's three, or five, or what). Until I read your original post, I would have said that Tortoises are utterly reliable. As I said earlier, I only use the auxiliary contacts to power panel indicator lights. So I've never had the incentive to open one up and attempt repairs. I'm impressed at how you're willing to "go where no man has gone before."
IF it's the Tortoise causing your problems (and although that's my hunch, it is still an unproven hunch) I personally would not attempt a repair. After all, we're talking track power and digital signals in your application; that's something that you need to be absolutely reliable.
When I first started wiring my Tortoises, I thought about using them to power my frogs and decided to use Frog Juicers instead out of sheer laziness. (My earlier layouts all used unpowered frogs; I'm just fortunate that when I switched to powered frogs, the Frog Juicers were available.) If is does turn out that you have more than one malfunctioning Tortoise, I will be disillusioned about Circuitron's quality control.
I'll be very interested to hear when you finally get this figured out.
All the best,
Dick
IF it's the Tortoise causing your problems (and although that's my hunch, it is still an unproven hunch) I personally would not attempt a repair. After all, we're talking track power and digital signals in your application; that's something that you need to be absolutely reliable.
When I first started wiring my Tortoises, I thought about using them to power my frogs and decided to use Frog Juicers instead out of sheer laziness. (My earlier layouts all used unpowered frogs; I'm just fortunate that when I switched to powered frogs, the Frog Juicers were available.) If is does turn out that you have more than one malfunctioning Tortoise, I will be disillusioned about Circuitron's quality control.
I'll be very interested to hear when you finally get this figured out.
All the best,
Dick