01-13-2011, 04:27 AM
Ed, I am sorry to read about your bad experience.
Did you ever direct connect the power leads from the trucks (or even only one truck) with the motor for test purposes? It would show if the pure mechanic is ok runni9ng with plain old DC. That would make it easier to focus on the sound decoder or on the drive itself.
I did read about a lot of problems of sound decoders preinstalled in the units (not specific for this unit but in general). That is the reason why I prefer the DC version and install the decoder of my choice. If your GP15 has a good drive mechanic it might be worse the effort to replace the board with your choice of (sound?)decoder.
Good luck to get a fine running engine.
Did you ever direct connect the power leads from the trucks (or even only one truck) with the motor for test purposes? It would show if the pure mechanic is ok runni9ng with plain old DC. That would make it easier to focus on the sound decoder or on the drive itself.
I did read about a lot of problems of sound decoders preinstalled in the units (not specific for this unit but in general). That is the reason why I prefer the DC version and install the decoder of my choice. If your GP15 has a good drive mechanic it might be worse the effort to replace the board with your choice of (sound?)decoder.
Good luck to get a fine running engine.
Reinhard