ESU How-To: Setting Your motor Speed

[@Form44208]

Great information! I'm less than a year into the hobby so still learning a lot. I have a couple of Athearn Genesis (my Walthers Proto and Atlas Gold units run perfectly) locomotives that were giving me problems especially as they came to a stop. The would slowly come to a stop and then jerk slightly a couple of times until they finally did stop. I put CV54 (BEMF effect) from 50 to 255 and CV55 from 100 to 10 and it solved the issue. I will continue to test and see if I can back this number down (not sure if I need to). I too prefer fine control of low speed operations and will definitely implement your suggestions. Thanks again!

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

I know it's 3 years but BEMF at 255!? I have 2 scaletrains that just have no speed. I go 99% throttle and it's like 25 mph. Crazy.

[@Form44208]

@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw That particular loco is very unusual, maybe the motor has some internal anomaly. The thing about your ScaleTrains low speed, I assume you checked the top speed and midrange speed CV settings, 5 and 6. Also check your CV53 reference voltage and put it at 140.

[@PSB-gj9xd]

With the Loksound 5....Can you do a video on the BEMF. Showing what ALL the functions on the Load Control / back EMF, Motor overload Protection and PWM Frequency CVs do to the Loco and why they have been included in the Lokprogrammer Software.....for us Tech savy hobbyists. Thanks PaulB

[@KimKeyboardKimFokken]

I need help for setting motor start delay. My atlas gp 40-2 with Loksound 5. There is a delay before locomotive starts to move. It is ho scale green BN. Of my 6 locomotives, only this one has start delay. I am using decoder pro

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

CV 54 =0 there still may be some delay like thedash 9 I have. Also put cv 3 and 4 at 0

[@gil6114]

I have an athearn genesis and my start delay is more like 6 seconds at speed step 5. CV 3-4 are at 0 -1, I changed cv 54 from 50 and and down still delay. Frustrated!

[@gil6114]

up and down from 50, i also using decoder pro

[@ProScaleModels]

Good video - I have a question. I want my engine to start/move immediately when I hit the button or move the wheel. There's about a 3 second delay on this - then it starts to move. Do you know what CV that would be to make that happen? I'm using a NCE Power Cab and the momentum is off. Thanks in advance.

[@erwin-janssens]

Hi Pro Scale Models , in the Driving Characteristics you have to set the acceleration adjustments to zero

[@Mr6017]

Wonder why esu doesn’t allow cv2 to be set at zero? My locomotives run great with v5 decoders but I get a small jerk when applying the throttle.

[@tikkykopmostert5972]

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