Reply to "New MTH Premier Engine Firebox Glow Not working from day one."

TheORegOGR Forum Member

So some progress. I’m a newb at modern, non conventional powered rr modeling. I have the engine and tender set on a 30 inch piece of track with a lighted bumper on one end.

As soon as I applied power to the TCU the engine fired up. And I immediately noticed the firebox was glowing as you can see in the first picture below.

Interesting though the iOS app shows the engine as “(inactive)”. So as I’ve seen this in the past I recycled the power to the Wi-Fi and TCU/track. Still the engine powers up automatically but again per the app “(inactive)”. Assumedly it is because I’m powering a simple 30 inch open ended section of track and not a complete circuit or loop of track and so it is sensing or defaults to conventional mode? (See second pic of the app from my iPad).

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