DCS100

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Hello all,

I just noticed that when my track shorts out, the dcs100 shuts down and does not reset. I have to shut it down myself and wait about 20-30 seconds, and then restart it all again.

I’ve tried some op switches and still no luck?

Am i missing something or what?

I put a 1156 bulb on rail “A” on my termimal strip and all is well. I can short it out now and it resets itself. But I shouldn’t have to do it this way. Why is this?

thanks

glenn

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What is on the track when it won’t reset? A bunch of sound locos? QSI decoders in particular have a large capacitor that cuases a huge inrush current when first powered up and if there are several of these on the tracks it can cause the booster to not be able to restart. The light bulb ‘buffers’ the inrush current which is why it worked after you put the bulb in.

–Randy

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Randy,

Thanks for the info i just read about that somrwhere last night. so i went to the other booster that was working correctly and put all five locos w/sound on that side of the layout, and shorted the track and the db150 shut down with its five beeps and restarted fine. (go figure,)

so now im going to take off the bulb on the dcs100 and take off the sound equipped locos and short out the track, and see if that was really the problem or not.

again thank you for the response,

glenn