Hey everyone,
I know I haven't been on the forum for quite some time. College has me extremely busy since I'm looking to go to med school.
Anyways, I just returned recently from my first semester for winter break. I went to go run the trains for a little bit proceeded to fire up both my Legacy Conrail GP30 and my Legacy PRR E6 Lindbergh Special.
I engaged both smoke units and ran them in a lashup. Suddenly while running the Conrail engine decided to take off and started to slip, flicker its lights very fast, and then the smoke output increased tremendously and then suddenly stopped. Also the engine was unresponsive to me pushing the red button on the legacy remote to stop all trains.
After this I shut off power to the layout and then fired it back up but this time the GP30 was not in legacy mode but in normal transformer mode. I then proceeded to delete the engine from the roster and then re-upload it with the legacy module and set its road number using program-run. After doing so I fired it back up and it ran perfectly...until I activated the smoke unit at which point it rain for about 3 minutes and did the same thing again (sped up really fast, smoke output increased dramatically, lights flickered, and was unresponsive to legacy commands).
I have had quite a fair share of issues with Legacy locomotives over the past 4 years and have never seen anything like this. I've had broken chassis, smoke units, and fried railsounds boards but not something this erratic.
Everytime I program the engine again it acts normal until I activate the smoke unit.
Could this be a short in the locomotive related to the smoke unit? Power surge from my house?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My E6 shows no change in its behavior at all during this entire situation so I really have no clue what it could be. This is the first time the GP30 has done anything like this since I've owned it for now a year and a half.
Thanks,
