[harkins77]

Yeah Nick you also forgot to mention after you check and double check when chipping to ask me especially when doing farish pcb boards....lol. It always helps though to have someone else around to ask questions and to make sure that every base has been covered.

BTW can I also stick my name down as being a member of the fried chip club as well. have burnt out a load of hornby r8215 chips in my time.

 

[harkins77]

Ok so I spoke too soon.

Was running my renumbered 60096 which I chipped with a TCS M1 decoder and everything was running perfectly. The loco was running for about 15 minutes and then all of a sudden the loco stopped. The loco's lights were still on so thought that it had just stalled on a part of the track but when I took the body off there was no sign of the decoder then I realised the decoder was still there but literally welded to the plastic body. I managed to carefully remove the chip from the body and after a lot cursing and swearing because the chip had slightly damaged the grille area on the roof. I had a look round and even though I had gone round the chassis with tape to try and protect it from any chance of a short one of the motor tabs coming from the circuit board had touched the chassis and blown the decoder. I haven't had a chance to test the loco to make sure no permanent damage has been done to the motor or circuit board but after speaking to a friend who this has happened to he assures me that everything should be ok but to just make sure when I get my replacement decoder from TCS under the Goof Proof warranty that I check check and check 2 more times to make sure nothing will move.

I have taken the steps though to make sure none of the other locos I did the other day have worked loose and suffer the same fate but you never know and I will just have to keep an eye on the rest of them every so often.

 

[harkins77]

Some goods news for the day as my replacement tcs m1 decoder arrived today from America less than 2 weeks since posting it.

Now that's customer service for ya.

 

[harkins77]

woohoo 60096 lives again thanks to the speedy replacement of the M1 decoder from TCS and also a helping hand from my 7 year old son as well thanks guys.

And yes I have learnt from my last mistake it is fully isolated from what it was before.