Atlas Nscale SD60 Short Circuit Problem

[Herc Driver]

After lots of time spend searching the engine for the problem...I noticed one of the motor contacts touching the inside of the frame when placed into position beneath the dcc board. After carefully threading the needle as it were, by inserting the motor contact through the insert point on the circuit board and then straightening out the contact metal so it didn't touch the frame, and isolating the frame from the motor with kapton and electrical tape, the engine finally works. WIth the other SD60, I repeated the whole procedure and it too now runs with the dcc board installed. I'll try to redo my tape fix on the first engine and concentrate on getting the motor contact strip bent just right...but of course you can only do that after the board is installed and in place, so there's just about no room to work in. Ah well. I'm happy for the success, and learning a bit more about decoder installations. But sometimes I really wish "DCC Ready" really means "ready".