I was just running an Atlas loco(N scale) with a Digitrax decoder that I have been running for over two years with no trouble whatsoever. I was backing it into a siding at slow speed and all of a sudden it went dead - nothing responding. I thought it might have been a short but all my other locos were OK. I lifted it off the track and placed it on a different section of track, still noting - totally dead - no response. I was going to take it apart to see if the decoder became disconnected somehow, but I thought, let me reprogram the decoder and see what happens. So that's what i did. I reprogrammed the decoder to the address it always was and now it's OK again. Is this a normal occurance? or is this just a weird thing that happened
Sometimes a decoder will have to be reprogrammed. A spike in voltage can do this. Reprogramming usually solves many strange problems. Stay cool and run steam......
