Quadrille Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Is it just the evil spirit in my train-room that makes things go wrong, the air turn blue and purple...and disappear(!) Oxford N7 is now on its fourth motor! They are absolutely useless and "not fit for the purpose". Try running the models, so fitted, for an hour in each direction at slow to medium speed, for two hour periods, and see how long they last...it's either the motors or the Evil Spirit, it will have to be exorcised! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Mine have been fine with DCC control, and I am an enthusiastic operator so my four are forever on the move on inner sub and branch services, and this has been the case for over four years on my first two purchases, one of which has been rebodied with an old whitemetal N7body, so even heavier than as supplied. Not found any problems yet... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted February 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 19 9 hours ago, Quadrille said: Is it just the evil spirit in my train-room that makes things go wrong, the air turn blue and purple...and disappear(!) Oxford N7 is now on its fourth motor! They are absolutely useless and "not fit for the purpose". Try running the models, so fitted, for an hour in each direction at slow to medium speed, for two hour periods, and see how long they last...it's either the motors or the Evil Spirit, it will have to be exorcised! It is more likely to be an unsuitable controller. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrille Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Okay, I can appreciate the comments but... Having changed to the fourth core-less motor the loco' has run for about ten hours in both directions and virtually none-stop for an hour or so at a time in each direction. The big difference being that the first three were unventilated but the fourth motor has six holes at/around the drive-gear circumference end and two slightly larger diameter holes at the wired terminal end. With regards to the type of controller used...this is the ESU ECoS 50210 (New). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy282 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 So as the system is DCC, the next question has to be what decoder are you using? Some are not so good with coreless motors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 On 20/02/2024 at 09:30, Quadrille said: Okay, I can appreciate the comments but... Having changed to the fourth core-less motor the loco' has run for about ten hours in both directions and virtually none-stop for an hour or so at a time in each direction. The big difference being that the first three were unventilated but the fourth motor has six holes at/around the drive-gear circumference end and two slightly larger diameter holes at the wired terminal end. With regards to the type of controller used...this is the ESU ECoS 50210 (New). Ah, DCC is a different ball game, that does sound like poor design/manufacturing quality in terms of the original motor then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 3 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 3 Does this thread help? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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