ColinB Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Running my Hornby Class 66 round the layout and it was running perfectly OK, it did about 2 loops then it suddenly stopped. I thought just a dirty piece of track, but no the TTS unit had failed. When I opened it up, the TTS decoder was a bit warm but no burning smell. Powered everything down and then started again, TSS decoder make a copule of gurgled noises then stopped. I bought the unit in April, I ran it a couple of times when I bought it, but why now. I raised a repair request with Hornby, anyone else had issues. This is the third one that has failed, the other two were dead from new. If it was something I was doing wrong like shorting rail voltage to it, then I could accept it, but in all cases I did nothing wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locojoe Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Hi colin make sure the decoder is not touching any metal surfacers and all wire joints are isolated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Hi colin make sure the decoder is not touching any metal surfacers and all wire joints are isolated If you refer to Colin’s other posts on much the same subject you will see it was a duff motor capacitor that went short and killed the decoder. Colin please try to keep it all on the same track, so I can keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinB Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 Sorry, I raised this one first, then noticed the other one in lowercase. Anyway, I bought new TTS decoder, tested loco with cheap dcc decoder that I could afford to lose (old Bachmann that is awful), and yes it works perfectly. I sent the broken one back for repair. I will fit it when it returns into my new class 59, which I have removed the capacitor from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Lets hope that is the end of your TTS troubles Colin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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