@jhz563 posted:Finally got an afternoon to do some repairs...
I need to open the engine back up and shorten how much wire is sticking out. My new tether has an extra pair of wires, so I intend to add a switch to turn the smoke unit on and off.
Now I still have a weird thing to deal with. For some reason the whistle is going off when the bell button is pressed and vice versa. It was doing this before the plug broke off, since the last it got serviced (by someone else).
If I swap the leads going to the sound board will this be corrected?
Yes with a caveat. You could reverse the wires on your transformer however if you have other locos with RS1 or whistles alone for which the bell whistle bottons are working properly then the fault is likely your tender wiring being backwards. A few Lionel transformers had to be wired backwards for the built in whistle button to function correctly. I have no way of knowing what you are powering your layout with and how it is wired. So if you have more than one loco which the bell an whistle work correctly then I would let the majority rule. j
