Getting wheel slippage on my Bachmann 4-6-0 locomotive

[yellow_cad]

How many ah are minimum for a G scale locomotive for any practical usage?

 

[Greg Elmassian]

Impossible to answer, since every loco, layout, and engineer varies.

This is why I am asking a specific question, amp hours is amp hours. If you tell me what you have and if you are pleased with the run time, that helps.

Do you have any experience how long your loco runs on a full charge?

Greg

(where I am headed is put as small pack in the loco as gives you satisfaction for run times... any additional weight from larger than needed batteries is sort of wasted. The only desire you have communicated is to pull more cars.)

 

[yellow_cad]

This was a secondary locomotive on my layout, but I see that my prime locomotive runs with 4.4 ah. I have this straight in my head now. Thanks, Jim

 

[dunnyrail]

How many ah are minimum for a G scale locomotive for any practical usage?

Ok so I have a couple of TrainLine 45 Mallets, these have 2 motors and a DCC Sound chip in them. Both have 2.1 Mah batttery 12 pack NiMh 14.4 volts. I generally get 4-6 hours of continuous use out of both before a charge is required, even then the batteries are not fully discharged. I tend to give them a top up before running one of my Timetable Sessions so have never deliberately run them flat to see how long they last.

 

[Dan]

The Industrial mogul is small and very light and will only pull 2 cars from what I have seen.

 

[JimmyB]

The Industrial mogul is small and very light and will only pull 2 cars from what I have seen.

I did increase the weight in mine, and it will pull 2 Bachmann JS coaches up 1:25 (4%) gradient.

 

[KeithT]

I don’t know which version of the 4-6-0 you are running but I have two 12yr old Annie’s which on my level track can each pull 80axles. I haven’t tried them on gradients but when you bear in mind that they are effectively 2-4-0s because the middle drivers don’t touch the track some reduction in pulling abiility will be significant on gradients.

 

[Greg Elmassian]

is 80 axles 40 cars or 20 cars?

also it's the weight of the loco that controls the pulling ability in the most part given all other things equal... especially with the minimal/no suspension on our locos, fewer drivers usually means better wheel to rail contact.

 

[JimmyB]

is 80 axles 40 cars or 20 cars?

also it's the weight of the loco that controls the pulling ability in the most part given all other things equal... especially with the minimal/no suspension on our locos, fewer drivers usually means better wheel to rail contact.

Depends if they are twin axle cars or bogie cars, or a mixture.

 

[Greg Elmassian]

I get the difference between 2 axle and 4 axle cars...

What I am asking Keith T is how many cars he pulled on the level ground.