Chris-K

Interesting, so what your saying is there is a chance if i disconnected the stay alive there is a chance it might behave properly, it obviously does let me programme it with the stay a live connected though?

Yep it does, the laisdcc fitted is the kungfu decoder with stayalive, which was fitted to cope with the higher draw amps it ran brilliantly at all speeds

Hi, just an update on this, I ran the train using a Digitrax DCS52 and it working fine so obviously there is some kind compatability issue with the select etc Thanks Chris

Hi, I've recently had a class 31 Hornby R357 converted to DCC, it is 1975 model with obviously an older motor requiring a better decoder as it needed more amps etc, also my Hornby select upgraded to 1.6 from Hornby, the problem is the train when trying to programme it sometimes jumps a couple times half way through programming and sometimes doesn't but once programmed it sometimes let's me move the train in both directions once and that's it, it will not do anything else, if I take the train off and back on the track it doesn't then recognise the controller I just can't get them to work, factory fitted dcc trains I have from Hornby all work fine, the decoder is a laiscc kung fu with stay alive I was told by the shop that did that the laisdcc decoders are not compatible with the Hornby controllers Any help on this would be great Thanks Chris