@Chills posted:https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...3#154730473923183693
So I was going to start a new discussion here but saw this. Was there any resolution? I had a chance to purchase two new in the box RMT GP beeps at an auction this week for about $45 each and jumped right on it. I have a bunch of o27 and o31 track and am planning a couple of christmas layouts for my grandkids. Thought these would be perfect on the tight curves. I have a small test oval set up that I was using to test so “new to me” post war lionel crossing lights etc. with a lionel 41 army switcher pulling 4 cars. So I put one of the beeps on there, It ran at half the speed of the slow, under powered old 41. I was shocked. Tried forward and reverse at full throttle on a small 50 lionel transformer. So then I took the cars off… still just as slow by itself. I then got the other one out of the box and the same thing. Now I need to wonder if they are junk from the factory or if there is something I can do to get them to run? Any ideas would be GREAT. Thanks.
As a quick follow up to this, I haven’t had much time the last few weeks to mess around with these. The 3 rail tubular layout that I put them on was the christmas one I put together for the grandkids powered by a small old lionel transformer. It ran post war steam loco’s great and as I have my big layout under construction it is all I had to test. Anyhow I put my lionel Z 250 watt transformer on that layout today and the beep ran great. So, I’ll have to go get my electrical kit from the shop to test things… but it is clear that the beeps require much higher wattage to run well than any of my post war steam engines. Just thought I would share for anyone interested.
