I'm calculating speed (since I run conventional) using the tried and true distance and time method. It's been matching exactly the speed in the other two instances above where the locomotives have shut down.
I will be bringing the locomotive to a local hobby shop tomorrow for testing. They have a tech with a board tester, so I am getting that done. The main question is, since the PS2 3V board is obsolete, is the cost to replace one or both boards if they test bad. I'm guessing in the $200-300 range. Am I correct in that guess?
I do have an ERR Daylight railsounds board (turns out not the TMCC board I thought I also had). Reason I have it is my original plan was to buy a Williams brass GS4 and upgrade it. If both boards end up having to be replaced I have though of just picking up a reverse unit and installing that and the ERR Railsounds board. I'd lose smoke chuffing, which I like, and some PS2 features (crew talk is garbage, speed control) which can go either way, since I run conventionally. But this is at a let's see what the tech says stage.
I'd feel a little bad going with a reverse unit, ERR Railsounds, and non chuffing smoke in this locomotive, especially since it is a Premier model. But that's basically how it came from the factory, being originally a PS1 engine.
