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QUOTE (markw @ 22 Jun 2008, 18:05) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi
Anybody have any experience stting up the ecos to work with the powershield range of breakers. I have 3 power districts each with their own breaker. One district runs direct from the ecos and the other two are split from a 4a ecosbooster.
Currently a short anywhere shuts down the whole system obviously i want it to only shutdown the district that has the problem.
As always advice, suggestions and help are gratefully recieved.
thanks
mark
***This problem looks to be common with many of the "new generation" DCC systems - ESU, Hornby, Dynamis etc... the command station is way too fast to react.
I suspect it will maybe/perhaps be fixable with software tweaks in the latest upgrades from ESU but I haven't checked.... If not you should perhaps enquire of the ESU forum, as there will be others with the problem too.
A patch that works well: You CAN fix it by adding a "buffer" in between the ESU and the breakers.... ie Add an appx 5 amp car tail light bulb (60 ~75watt) into one lead from the ECOS before it gets to the powershields - that way the short will be buffered so the ECOS won't shut down so fast, and the powershields will be able to act as they are designed to... and the current draw on the ECOS will still be reasonably well buffered by the lamp if a whole system fault develops.
regards
Richard
DCCconcepts
Anybody have any experience stting up the ecos to work with the powershield range of breakers. I have 3 power districts each with their own breaker. One district runs direct from the ecos and the other two are split from a 4a ecosbooster.
Currently a short anywhere shuts down the whole system obviously i want it to only shutdown the district that has the problem.
As always advice, suggestions and help are gratefully recieved.
thanks
mark
***This problem looks to be common with many of the "new generation" DCC systems - ESU, Hornby, Dynamis etc... the command station is way too fast to react.
I suspect it will maybe/perhaps be fixable with software tweaks in the latest upgrades from ESU but I haven't checked.... If not you should perhaps enquire of the ESU forum, as there will be others with the problem too.
A patch that works well: You CAN fix it by adding a "buffer" in between the ESU and the breakers.... ie Add an appx 5 amp car tail light bulb (60 ~75watt) into one lead from the ECOS before it gets to the powershields - that way the short will be buffered so the ECOS won't shut down so fast, and the powershields will be able to act as they are designed to... and the current draw on the ECOS will still be reasonably well buffered by the lamp if a whole system fault develops.
regards
Richard
DCCconcepts
