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fellas, just pulled out a purchase from the box.  its from 2001.  PRR switcher 060 PS-2.  It has a switch on bottom of tender to do conventional or PS2.  I can turn the engine on with remote.  whistle and bell and sounds all good.  Tender backup light is good.  THe issue is the engine will not move, no headlight or smoke.  nothing in PS-2 mode. Conventional switch and it moves.  so something is wrong in the electronics?  anything I can do or should I send the thing back to seller? 

 

thanks

Chris

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None of my MTH locos from that era have such a switch either. There was a B6PRR 0-6-0 in 2000 catalog.  Note it also came in loco-sound version.  Also a USRA version in 2002.

 

Hate to get basic, but I would ask whether there's a new battery installed and (2) any messages when you tried to add it to the DCS remote?

 

I assume you just bought it second hand.  Have you opened the tender to check its guts; a prior owner may have made some changes.

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Well. When I pulled it out. The switch on tender was on.  Put it on and plugged in tiu. And it was full speed!   Switch off. Went to dcs.  Plugged in. Remote recognized engine.  But no engine power or anything. Like tender was good. Sounds whistle bell.  I'll get the model number for you John later. I'm away from house.  It was a prototype model. Said the seller.  I wonder if that was a way to run straight conventional and then if you had dcs. You could do that too.  Battery looked new. The sounds not garbled at all.  It's a 5volt.  9 volt battery in tender.   Did not do the factory reset yet.

Need a picture of the internals.  Only switch on a vintage of that year is coupler or smoke for PS-1 and smoke for PS-2 5V.  Maybe a coupler direction on a larger steam with AUX tender.  But not a switcher.  Since this was a prototype, it did not come with electronics most likely and someone added them.  G

See the switch looks stock.  Nothing on engine. No center pickups. So something is not telling engine to go. Front coupler. Nothing.  Rear fires on tender. Tender backup light works.  John I tried factory reset.  Nothing.  It's like the signals not making it to engine. Maybe a loose plug on board.

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Chris,  That switch is the smoke switch on and off.  The other Pot is the volume control.

 

You may have a problem with smoke unit or wiring and that is why when you turn on the smoke you have engine taking off.  Probably with the smoke fan.

 

Or as RJR stated, there is an issue with the tether.

 

Unplug the engine and just place tender on track and power up with switch on.  Do you have control of the tender features, if not, turn switch off and you need to have the board inspected.  If so, look at tether and engine smoke unit.

 

Hopefully it is a simple tether.  G

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One thing that happened when I first switched over that tender switch was that the headlight would increase brightness as I thumbwheeled speed up.  of course engine did not move, but headlight got really bright.  Then, I shut down engine, re start and headlight never came back on. 

 

im packing this thing up and mailing back for a refund. 

 

thanks for all your help guys.  I dont want to get into messing too much with this thing and spend alot to get it running.  I would be better off spending on a premier Proto 1 and convert it to 2

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