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Hi Everyone,

This last weekend I just bought a new Century Club 726 berkshire and spent the afternoon figuring out how to get everything working correctly.  But to this point, I still don't have it smoking.  I did notice a small amount at one point but it quite after that.  Can someone help me with getting it to work?  I was reading the original paperwork that came with it and noticed that it said if you run it without smoke fluid it could burn out the element in the smoker.  Is that true?

Thank you,

Bruce

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Contact Lionel customer support.  Yes they can burn out if they are on but don't have any fluid in them.  Years ago, I bought a new Lionel PRR 6-4-4-6 that wouldn't smoke and when I called customer support they told me that some locomotives were shipped with the wires were not hooked up correctly to the smoke unit.  That was the case with mine. 

Hi Jim,  Thank you for the reply.  

Since I was told the engine was new and had never been used, I added 8 drops as the Lionel instructions for this engine callout 4 to 8 drops.  I ran it for a while and never got anything from the engine in the way of smoke.  This is only the second new, never been used, engine that I have bought since I was 10 and started collecting Lionel trains.  The first one didn't smoke well at first also, until I had added a second round of drops and now it smokes great!  So I added a second round of 8 drops (total of 16) and that was when I saw a very small amount of smoke, also this small amount of smoke was after it sat for a few hours.  I'm of the opinion right now that it might take more fluid at first to get the smoker to work fresh out of the box.

I would be very interested in your thoughts.

Bruce

Are you running this command or conventional? If you are running conventional, that might be the issue.

Running command there's 18 volts to the track and there's plenty of current available to power up the existing smoke resistor and the circuitry is designed to support 18 volts at the rail.

As an example:  I had a signal sounds non-command board equipped diesel.  When I ran in conventional the smoke unit just wouldn't "work".  Once I added a command board and ran it in command mode, it smoked up a storm.

So, as this was an early, TMCC Century Club loco, I'm guessing you might have a "power" problem.

Fred

It has a command board already.  Your issue is not running it in command.  If you dump 18 volts to that in conventional, it will go through the wall. 

You might want to check out the TMCC board to find out how to add command to your ZW.   I have CAB-1's, Power Master's and one Command Base - these are the original TMCC components introduced by Lionel.   Now there's CAB-2's, and I don't know what else, because I've been out of the new loop for a while.

Fred

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