On 23/8/04 9:12 pm, "Bert & Edmunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave.
>
> A friend and myself both run Accucraft C-16s among others. we both
> have the same RC unit. my engine runs well Manfreds does not. We
> swapped various parts to try to find the reason. I dropped to a cheap
> 27Mhz rc. my loco still performed well. The other one using my radio
> did not. I feel it has not so much to do with the radio gear as with
> the individual loco. I am convinced that cheap glitching is less
> annoying than expensive glitching. (Do you always get what you pay
> for?) We are now looking for a reason which is probably much less
> complicated than we think and probably the tea lady has better
> chances of solving the problem than we have. After all she knows
> nothing about radio gear. We have also found that often models play
> up at the same spot. If we have two weak radios they only play up at
> distinct points. stronger instalations have no problems. We have
> almost written it off as whitchcraft.
Does one of you use rechargables instead of dry batteries? Other than a
locomotive supplied with them on purchase I always use cheap dry batteries
which can make a significant difference.
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