@PRREnola posted:Hello All, Thank you for your suggestions...Ok...From the top...The # 1 button on my DCS Remote turns the smoke off and on...No. 7 is the Headlight, but I tried "both" 1 and 7 when putting the Locomotive into Reverse....Still No Back-up Light....I did both a "Feature Reset", and a "Factory Reset" as found in the Advanced Menu....No Back Up Light after doing both Resets....The Tender has (3) Switches on Bottom...(1) 2-Rail of 3-Rail...obviously set to 3-Rail; (2) DCS or DCC....set to DCS; and (3) and this one I don't understand AUX - COAL...? Anyway, it was factory set to AUX, but for the heck of it, I tried it set to "COAL".....no Back up light either way....however, interestingly, now I seemed to have lost the firing (opening) of the Proto-coupler on the rear of the Tender....I get the sound effect, the Locomotive still goes into, and runs in Reverse....but still no Back-Up Light, and now, no opening of the Coupler...? Go figure..? I bought it brand new from a Dealer in Indiana....I'm in Pennsylvania....so taking it in for a quick check at the Dealer isn't an option.....So....if nothing else, I guess tomorrow evening, I'll carefully remove the Tender Shell and see if I see anything obvious...unless someone has another idea to try....Again....Thanks for all your help....PRREnola
I had the same problem. Specifically the tender light. For what its worth, I took the shell off 2 times to inspect. No much under the shell to go wrong. Plenty of room. The problems grew from there. You can find my original post for that. Here were the steps I took:
Installed new drawbar. No go. I put my Hiawatha tender to the 611. Flawless operation. Ran 3 hours all over the layout. 611 tender, stops dead and requires power off and on to get track to find engine. When power back on columns and smoke start high until shutdown. Then power up and adjust smoke and volume down sound. Start again, run a few feet or loops, “Dead”!
Checked plugs on 611 tender board. Did seethed soldered and shrink wrapped the green wire from plug to board. Did not take wrap off but felt fine. Ran without shell and back- up led installed. 611 runs fine until it goes through switches or anything that may have voltage interruption ( small gaps in Ross 4 way). My MTH Hiawatha and Dreyfuss tenders on 611are fine. Build seems to be very similar to each other. So swapping as troubleshooting made sense.
I think it is the board, and needs to go back to MM for board replacement. I want to avoid the busy MTH service department. Fitting as probably my last new MTH steamer.
Interesting, the same dealer sold mine to me. I sent mine in to MM. Jeff ordered a new tender board from MTH. Not in yet. Mine is waiting for the part.
