[Phill.Prior]

Got Hornby Western Pullman DCC set as Christmas present.now having Trouble with the trains .neither of them workhave tried reprograming them when I do this the little red light flashes eight times.Also brought Brittiania 'Forth of Tay'put in hornby decoder it worked allrighht until weekend now will only go in one direction if i take the decoder out and turn it round the loco goes in opposite direction

 

[Gary]

Remove the Select from the layout and hook it up to a clean section of track and try the locos on that. It could be that your track and wheels are dirty and need a clean. Locos will do funny things on dirty track or if they have dirty wheels.

Happy modelling
Gary

 

[markw]

I had a similair problem and found that resetting the select unit to factory defaults cured it.

Don't ask me why though, i'm still on the learning curve with this stuff...

Have fun

mark

 

[zachariah]

QUOTE (Phill.Prior @ 1 May 2007, 17:21) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Got Hornby Western Pullman DCC set as Christmas present.now having Trouble with the trains .neither of them workhave tried reprograming them when I do this the little red light flashes eight times.Also brought Brittiania 'Forth of Tay'put in hornby decoder it worked allrighht until weekend now will only go in one direction if i take the decoder out and turn it round the loco goes in opposite direction
I have had similar problems, you could try reprogramming the loco'a but give them a different address number, it worked for me, don't know why though.

 

[Phill.Prior]

Thank you all for the tips will try them all and let you know the out come

 

[markw]

QUOTE (markw @ 1 May 2007, 20:32) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I had a similair problem and found that resetting the select unit to factory defaults cured it.

Don't ask me why though, i'm still on the learning curve with this stuff...

Have fun

mark

Guess i should have said that that both hornby locos had reset themselves to address 3 but untill i reset the select i couldn't reprogram the loco's...