MTH Z4000 Problem

I would guess maybe a terminal came off the inside banana plug connector inside the transformer. unless you know what you are doing I would not suggest you take it apart yourself the internals can easily be damaged if you don't know what your doing and the circuit boards can be quite expensive and mth will not sell them to you anyway.

the one thing I would suggest is check to see if your circuit breaker is tripped and if tripped reset it ok!

Alan

p.s. the circuit breaker are behind the left and right back side of the transformer behind the control handles ok

 p.s send me an email if you need help I live in new jersey as well near the shore

PHILG - Not to worry.  Your Z 4000 is not giving up the ghost.  The same thing happened to my Z4000 and I've been running trains like this ( with out the 14 volt constant output ) for at least a year.   I figured its just like Alan said.  

The Z runs my trains fine.  I use my Lionel ZW to power accessories.  I will take the Z 4000 transformer over to MTH ( they are 10 minutes from my house ) one day for repair and use my second  ZW to power the trains.   MTH repair turn around time is next to forever so that it is why I haven't taken it to them sooner. 

I think you are fine to run keep running your trains with your Z 4000 ... not unless you need that 14 volt constant output to power accessories. 

Thank you both for the responses. The other outputs are working fine, so I'll just keep running trains with it and switch the 14V connection to my other Z4000. At some point I'll hook up my KW for accessories and I'll get the Z4000 repaired. Thanks for the Z4000 insight.

Phil,

Did you check the little white circuit breakers on the Z4000 as was suggested above by Alan?

I rechecked the circuit breakers and found the one controlling the 14V posts was in fact tripped. Thanks for the tip.