After taking apart a section of my layout for cleaning and putting it back together my fastrack o72 switch isn't working properly. Now the switch will not operate with my legacy cab 2 controller. My first thought was to reprogram it but that didn't work. After making sure all the rails leading to it had a proper connection I still couldn't get it to work. However while inspecting the switch I noticed if I touched the bottom ( metal shield ) while sending a command it would work. I removed the metal shield to see if I could see some type of short. Found nothing. I then reinstalled the switch with the shield off. It would worked with out a problem. I reinstalled the shield and again the switch would no longer work. I thought maybe the PCboard was shorting out on the metal shield so I put electrical tape over the top of the board. After installing the shield everything works fine now. My question is should I order a new board from lionel or should I continue to use this board? I don't want there to be an electrical problem that could damage my trains while they rolling over the switch.
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