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I like smoking locomotives and smoking accessories. Whatever power is the smoke on the hobo shack and the tower that has the two guys on it is anemic at best. Is there a way to give the smoke more oomph? And if not is there a way to put a more powerful smoke unit in these wonderful accessories?

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POTRZBE,

The part number is AA0000011, PS1 Smoke Unit.  It is listed under Upgrade Kits.  The price is $50.00, so it depends on whether or not you want to make the expenditure for the upgrade.  It has to stand posts for easy mounting to the base.  After removing the original unit, I tweeked the mounting position for the most clearance to the roof and mounted a piece of aluminum’ foil over the smoke outlet to distribute the smoke more evenly throughout the depot for a more realistic output.  I put electrical tape over the circuit board to prevent any shorts from the foil, so you may have to do some adjusting to make it to your liking.  I also removed the screws holding the building to the base so that I can lift the top off to add smoke fluid.  I glued the chimney on so that I wouldn’t lose it again.  I’m really pleased with the now realistic building on fire.

Ron

POTRZBE,

I don’t have the burning switch tower.  If there is enough room inside of the building, I assume that the procedure to install one would be similar.

By the way, I just completed installation of two MTH smoke units under the smokestacks of my Menards power and light building.  It was quite a project building a housing for the smoke units and a platform for the smokestacks.  As you can probably tell, I like smoking accessories too.  I am quite pleased with the results on that building also.

Ron

@stangtrain posted:

My first inclination was to say “be careful what you wish for” but after just running my Kline diner and the coffee scented smoke pouring out, I see why you want to increase the volume of smoke from the hobo shack!

Just wondering if the MTH smoke unit can be regulated to put out more or less smoke, in case “on’ is just too much?

Controlling the voltage.

If the part number is the same, I would assume that it is the same item with identical features.  Can’t imagine why it comes up with different prices depending on what method is used to find the smoke unit.  I ordered two different times from the upgrade list, once for the Hobo Depot and again for the Power and Light building and the price was the same.  I operate mine around 5 volts or it smokes me out of the basement.  I’m not worried about it burning out anytime soon, even at higher voltages.  The two smoke units in my Veranda PS-1 engine have been smoking fine for many years.

Ron

TrainCzar, it runs just fine at 5-6 volts and can go as high as 18, but you wouldn’t survive the smoke long at high voltage.  I don’t know how the smoke will show up on video, but I’ve attached one of both the Hobo Depot and the Power and Light building.  Note that I originally had both chimneys on the Power and Light building smoking with individual smoke units.  However, I removed one chimney and disconnected the smoke unit because it was just too much smoke and very difficult to synchronize both units to produce the same volume and density because it varied according to the amount of smoke fluid in each unit.

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