Hancock52 posted:I have an A-A pair of Texas Special E7s from the 6-31755 set issued about 12 years ago. They got lots of run time some years back, were moved to display and now I’ve put them on the rails again I notice a couple of things:
1. When shutting down the engines via the Cab2, the smoke units keep running although the sounds do not and the smoke units have to be shut down separately. I don’t recall this set acting that way when new; an ID and feature reset (Aux1+7 as per the manual) makes no difference. Have I forgot something - was this a quirk of Legacy engines of the time? Anything else I should try to cause the smoke to shut down with the sounds?
Early Legacy engines did this. The smoke units fans were NOT part of the shut down sequence and had to be shut down via the remote smoke controls.
2. Although the manual contains instructions for making a Legacy lashup of this pair I found that by default the trailing unpowered A unit (which has smoke and directional lighting but no sound) is set to be the rear-facing engine. Is it necessary to go through the lashup procedure at all? These engines came with separate orange modules and I set them up using those. I then created a train and from memory they ran fine configured as such although now they won’t answer the train commands. I transferred the settings to a new Cab2 and updated the software a while back. I wonder if this has anything to do with the smoke unit issue?
If the trailin A is set is default to be rear facing then you don't have to put it in a "lashup". The update had nothing to do with the smoke unit issue. That's coded in the engine. After everyone noticed this issue Lionel changed the coding on future releases to turn off the smoke unit fans when "shutdown" was initiated.
