Hi all
Have anyone tried to see how long distance
locos with buffer capasitor can bridge?

Thanks John for your answer
I dident even think about stop sections
But what can make a track be powerless for so short distance?

I had never thought about buffer capacitors and modern model railway software. Normally, when I calibrate a loco the braking effect has to be turned off as the software itself controls the rate of acceleration and braking. This way the software is able to bring the loco into a station within millimetres of the expected stop. I think that the difference here is that there needs to be an actual power loss to trigger the buffer capacitor, but in digital control the power is constantly on, even when the loco is stopped, which means that it should not "activate" the buffer capacitor.

Stop sections that actually take away the power are a very different story - fortunately, I don't (or didn't) use them on my layout.

For the ESU loksound 5 decoder with power pack the manual says that the time for the power to be active can be set with the value from 0-255. Each increment giving a time of 0.032768 seconds. So 255 would give a bit more than 8 seconds of run time (in theory at least). The factory preset is a value of 127 (4 seconds).