I think I may have fried My BLI Hudson tonight. I’m in the process of building a new layout and tonight I finally wired the tack that I’ve laid so far. I’m using a Lenz 100 system. The Hudson only makes intermittent noises and dose not move, it ran great on my old layout, which was also Lenz. I have an old brass engine with a decoder installed and it runs OK. I’ve only had the Hudson for about 2 weeks, I bought it from Tony’s Trains. Any ideas what I should?
I guess it might be possible/ i use the lenz set it has a built in short protector,and shuts down if anything happens.I would check the plug the one on my hudson sometimes dose not make proper contact even though it looks seated. I also would reset hudson back to factory defaults.These units require a higher voltage so I would also check your track connections to make sure your getting enough voltage.Good luck.
I had the same problem with mine, no control whatsoever. If it came with a manual, read it and it tells you how to reset it. I was really worried when it happened to mine, but it was easily fixed. When you remove the tender body, which is just press fit on, there is a jumper toward the back that you have to remove, then power it up, then power it down and replace the jumper. It will end up okay hopefully, I’m not sure what happens, but the guys at my LHS said it has happened more than once.
Good Luck,
Greg
Call up Tony’s first thing Monday morning. They’ll be able to help you out.
Sounds like we have to reboot engines these days. My M1a got cranky a few times but a trip on DCC calmed it down pretty good.
A couple of months ago I had the same thing happen to my 1st run hudson.I sent it back to BLI and they repaired it.New motor & new frame with no explination as to what the problem was.
Before you panic, try using the reset jumper in the tender. to reset everything to factory default. There seems to be more than a few issues with the QSI sound decoders ‘lockign up’ under intermittant power conditions (I’m guessing if the power goes away whiel the decoder is ‘initializing’ - that would explain why people have problems when some other engien derails and shuts down their DCC system due to a short, power comes back, everything works fine EXCEPT the BLI loco). The reset jumper usually cures this, or there’s a CV you can program on DCC that will reset to factory default as well (don’t have the manual in front of me). The actual physical jumper on the board is generally more reliable though. Don;t forget to set it back to the original place after the rest, otherwise it will never save and programming information! Oneof the BL locos (the cab forward maybe?) came from the factory with the jumper in the wrong place so if you have oen of those that runs at the default address but never saves anything you program to it, that’s why.
–Randy