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I have QSI/Airiwre setup in an Aristo Mikado. Recently, the Mikado started running poorly--from standby , or neutral, the light would come on, it would make a chuff, then it would quit. Give it a nudge, same thing. It would work fine for a while, then on stop would revert to this behavior. Poor power pickup, you're thinking, and so was I. I rewired it so it's getting power from all eight tender wheels and I swapped in a new Mikado drive. Now even though it's getting power from the loco and the tender at the same time (I did George's switch mod) it still does this "false start."
I set it on a test track and hooked it to the Quantum programmer--the programmer will not recognize the loco. I even took it apart and pulled the Gwire cable, and it still won't recognize the loco. It does recognize my other QSI-equipped engines.I reset it manually, using the red switch and the power startup trick ,but still no go.
It runs fine, once it gets started, it answers commands from Airwire, and I can progam CV values with Airwire
My guess is that there is some kind of intermitent continuity break in the QSI card, causing it to cut out at start.
Any ideas? I'm going to call QSI tomorrow
I set it on a test track and hooked it to the Quantum programmer--the programmer will not recognize the loco. I even took it apart and pulled the Gwire cable, and it still won't recognize the loco. It does recognize my other QSI-equipped engines.I reset it manually, using the red switch and the power startup trick ,but still no go.
It runs fine, once it gets started, it answers commands from Airwire, and I can progam CV values with Airwire
My guess is that there is some kind of intermitent continuity break in the QSI card, causing it to cut out at start.
Any ideas? I'm going to call QSI tomorrow