Yesterday
D821 'Greyhound' ran off
at full speed again as I finished programming the ID into the hand set white smoke and the smell of burn PCB wafted from the loco.
This morning I stripped out all the wiring tested all the PCB’s for faults
nothing untoward was found with the lighting board disconnected I ran it on the
rolling road using a DC supply. Then my chance I noticed the motor stall and
pick again. OK check the current it was drawing 0.8 of an amp occasionally
peaking to 2.2 amps. Fortunately I had the original motor bogie with the broken
mounting spigot a swap of the motor and test run on the rolling road using a DC
supply show the replacement motor pulled 0.12 amps things look promising for the
new chip when it arrives.
It's keeping you busy...
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