DC locomotives

Model Railroader Electronics and DCC
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I have a HO scale layout that I can run ether DC or DCC locomotives on it. But this question is for DC locomotives. I have a couple of (DC) locomotives that are short wheel base and stalls over a few switches on the layout. Sometime ago I see a video on You-tube (I think) or it may have been on some one’s web site. That a person put some kind of circuit in a locomotive to prevent it from stalling out. I’m wanting to think the locomotive was a Grandt Line Box cab. In the video it showed the locomotive running over a piece of tissue paper with out stalling. I think the circuit held a charge for a few seconds before the loco would stop ofter loss of power from the rail. Would any one remember this video or web site?

Don

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Sounds like they put a capacitor across the motor. You’d need to make sure it was non-polarised (i.e. no positive and negative terminals), otherwise it might blow on you.

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I understand your frustration. If you don’t want to go through alot of massing around, you might want to try adding a section of track between your switches. I did this with my layout and no engines stall. Something to think about.

Railcon