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I was running 5 locos at the same time and I pressed the Stop button and did not pay attention to it for about 15 minutes. When I checked it again, there were no display, no lights, I touched the transformer and it was not hot but when I unplug it from Hornby Select, the DC power plug was very hot. I powered the Select with a 3.5A transformer and that should not be a problem for Select because Hornby claims it supports 4amp.
I dismantled it and found there is a "magnet" soldered next to the DC power jack had an edge broken off and left a burnt mark on the DC jack. I have no idea how to fix it so I sent email to Hornby thru their website site contact form to ask them what do I do and I live in Hong Kong, I ordered that from UK online shop and no reply so far for 2 days.
I was running 2 Hornby R8215 on 2 Hornby locos, 1 Lenz Silver on Heljan Class 27, 1 ESU Lokpilot 3.0 on Fleischmann BR218 and 1 DXDC dcc decoder rate at 1A on Bachmann Class 25 on the track.
No hope on Hornby Select, I'm considering to buy another DCC controller, I've read previous posts that NCE procab might be a good choice, any suggestions? I'm a basic runner, I don't need to control points nor lights but I'd like to run many locos at the same time and a digital display.
Thanks,
Dennis
I dismantled it and found there is a "magnet" soldered next to the DC power jack had an edge broken off and left a burnt mark on the DC jack. I have no idea how to fix it so I sent email to Hornby thru their website site contact form to ask them what do I do and I live in Hong Kong, I ordered that from UK online shop and no reply so far for 2 days.
I was running 2 Hornby R8215 on 2 Hornby locos, 1 Lenz Silver on Heljan Class 27, 1 ESU Lokpilot 3.0 on Fleischmann BR218 and 1 DXDC dcc decoder rate at 1A on Bachmann Class 25 on the track.
No hope on Hornby Select, I'm considering to buy another DCC controller, I've read previous posts that NCE procab might be a good choice, any suggestions? I'm a basic runner, I don't need to control points nor lights but I'd like to run many locos at the same time and a digital display.
Thanks,
Dennis