My cleaning loco goes backwards!

Graham

Graham

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I had a decoder fitted to my lgb track cleaning loco. It now goes backwards relative to the direction of the mammoth navigator. The lights however are correct so is there a simple fix or do I need to reverse the motor wires. o_O
 
Yep - turn the dial the other way!
or, more seriously, add 'one' to what ever your CV29 says it is.
and even more seriously - send it back to the numpty that fitted the decoder - I hope you didn't pay for it!
 
Or even do you mean the cleaning wheels go the wrong way?

There are 2 things to the cleaner. It is normal for the cleaning wheels to go counter to the direction of the loco for some obscure LGB reasoning.

I have always wondered if they would run smoother if the loco and cleaning wheels ran the same ditprection. But of course I may have the wrong end of Graeham's stick here.
JonD
 
Greg Elmassian said:
1. When moving in direction "A" the lights on the "front" of the loco are on?

Or

2. do you mean the lights match the "navigator direction" but the loco goes the other way (does not match)? (this is how I interpreted your statement)

Greg
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Yep option 2. When I turn the navigator dial in the normal forward direction it goes in reverse and the front lights come on. If I turn the navigator dial in reverse direction it goes forwards but no lights.

The cleaning wheels run as the should. But on that subject they do tend to bounce and I am so seeing if I should add a bit of weight to that end?
 
The cleaning wheels go that way to 'throw' debris out forwards.. This does cause the 'bounce' though..

I have reversed the cleaning wheels for one person.. He wanted a smoother 'ride' of the loco, and the cleaning wheels to help drag the loco over really dirty bits!

As others have said, adding '1' to the value of CV29 should cure this..
 
Graham said:
The cleaning wheels are brand new so should not be out of true!
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Graham - what type of decoder and what firmware version? I recently had a Massoth XLS which, when fitted in a loco, behaved exactly as you described and it took a reload of firmware to fix it.
 
Hi Phil good question but the answer is :oops:
 
Ahhh. Then may I humbly suggest you follow Stockers' advice and contact the installer on the forwards/backwards issue.
As regards the cleaning wheels bouncing, the dirtiness level of the track and chosen speed of the loco can also cause this. Personally I stick to speed step 5 (of 14) and let the loco make 2 or 3 passes and this works just fine on my track
 
Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions :) as soon as I can get back into my worshop i shall investigate further. Garage undergoing modification to become workshop annex so everything from garage is dumped into the workshop
 
Bouncing is more of the track voltage issue, since they are running from the track voltage. For me, the higher the speed the better. The speed of the loco did not seem to affect bouncing for me, but running the loco slow gave better cleaning, like one pass.

It's easy to see if the wheels are out of round, I'd check that too.... you can true with rough file, x-acto, etc.

Greg
 
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