TUGreystones posted:So I spoke to Lionel tech support today, and they told me to wire the white wire on the pigtail to hot and the accessory should work without issue. When I connected the red and black to hot and common via the pigtail the sawmill came to life - it didn’t require the white wire at all. Apparently the instructions aren’t particularly clear that this accessory may be run in a conventional mode, but it worked!
Thanks for all the feedback you all offered, and I’m going to watch the video Sean made to make sure my equipment doesn’t jam. Hope you all have a great Christmas!
That's good info for conventional operators, but they should really add that to the manual. Unless they are on the forum how would they know to do that?
I wonder if they made a change to the sawmills for conventional mode too but never updated the manuals.
I pulled off the top and the white wire on mine goes no where. Just the Red & Black. the white is snipped off inside the sawmill.
I tried that with mine (which is the original command model) and it does nothing when power is applied. Only when I give it an address and command. Seems to vary by version? Even Lionel doesn't seem to know as they told you to use the white wire, lol.
So you should be able to just wire in a switch on one of the leads and you are set.
