Problem with new tie-jector and work car

The one that came with the tie-jector.  It is plenty long enough.

Get your ohmmeter out, maybe the plugs are mis-wired. 

Mine works fine with the work car and tether attached.   

Mystery solved!  The tether shipped with the tie-jector is wrong.  I found the manual for the work car and as you can see in the lower portion of the photo the wires in that tether are straight through. (Could not find the box to see if the actual tether is that way) The tether that comes with the tie-jector has the wires crossed as you can see in the upper diagram in the tie-jector manual.  I uncrossed the wires from the 2nd tether and plugged it back in and everything works fine.

Glad things worked out.  But I'm a bit confused.    Since you said the plugs on the tether are keyed (and can only be plugged into the cars one way), did you disconnect one pair of wires from the corresponding plug and rewire that plug to get things working?

Sean didn't seem to encounter this problem.

I'm curious because I plan to purchase a set of these cars.  Thx...

David

Seems the wires were mispinned in the harness is all. Simple fix.

Glad you were able to figure it out.

Kinda' what I figured.

I am using the tether that came with the Tie-Jector car (you have to because the other one is too short) and the wires are crossed over each other like yours was originally and it works fine.  So after I saw this I went back and switched the tether to the one that came with the Work Car (the wires do not cross on that one and it also worked perfectly fine.  Not sure, but both tethers work fine on mine. 

Are people running in conventional or command mode?  I am running in command mode. I did rewire the one plug to uncross the wires.  I sent a question to Lionel and will post any answer they give.

Running in Command mode.  I tried switching wires and they work either way.  Is it possible your issue was something else and maybe you jarred something around while you were playing with the tethers and its not shorting anymore?   Who knows, Its a strange one.

If you switch the wires back does it act up again?

Just a thought,  but you know  the old saying the simplest answer is usually the one, any chance you just had the work car not on track perfectly and when you went to play with tether and you put it back on track ok it worked and was not tether related at all?   Just a thought.

Anyone else out there get the new Tie-Jector and had an issue?