Good evening, myself and a few other railroad enthusiast in The Indiana PA Area have put on a model train display at the Indiana University of PA (IUP) Museum.
We have a O gauge Layout running MTH engines.
Before the opening night last Saturday I mentioned that we should check the scale miles on the engines that we are running on the layout and see how many scale miles we put on the engines during this show.
We have A MTH Cancer Survivor Engine, I am pretty sure it is an Imperial ES44AC model but I cannot find this particular engine in any of MTH books so I can't give you the exact MTH item number.
This engine is equipped with PS 3.
When I went to check the miles on this engine it took me 3 times before I could get any information on this engine.
The engine was sitting on a powered track set at 18 volts and the engine was stationary.
On the third try I got the engine information on the hand held screen, the total time and scale mileage came up but so did the message " Battery Low"
I checked the second engine which is an Imperial MTH Pennsy L1 Mikado equipped with PS 3 and it came up that the battery was ok. it only took one time to retrieve this information from this engine.
I thought that the MTH PS3 equipped engines no longer used a battery back up ????
The ES44AC Cancer Survivor engine runs fine and all the soft key functions including the PFA announcement all work.
Can you tell why this engine came up with the "Battery Low" message on the handheld.
Thanks in advance !!!!
