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I slightly remember a problem being discussed with the front truck pick up of the PE.  At a show last week, I had some intermittent problems near switches - which we deduced as a combination of dirty track and improper track attachment (the joiner rode on top of the rail, not around it).

Should I look for anything, or just assume they were the problem?

 

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I just bought one recently and had a problem with the pilot truck arcing. I sent it in for warrantee service and have it back now. The arcing has stopped but now the sound cuts out for a fraction of a second in a few spots on my layout. Track is clean. I am reluctant to take anything apart because lionel voided a warrantee on me previously for removing wheels from an Alco PA. Perhaps I am stuck with sending it to Concord, NC again?

Chuck, Check and make sure the connector between the engine and tender is fully engaged, when mine had first arrived I had not fully engaged it and had some problems. 

Francine, The wire going to the pilot truck is very stiff and quite short, the best bet here is to splice a short piece of super flex wire to the end of this wire and then to the pilot truck.  

I will be running my  PE  at a number of shows so I took advantage of the fact that Lionel made the tender to be all wheel pick-up and have run power wires from the tender trucks through the tender to the engine. I added a micro plug for ease of handling.

I am adding flex wire to all of the cars also, the wire attached to the trucks is very stiff and I've had a couple of these break.

Ray

Thanks Ray, yes we run on DCC at the club, and either DC or AC at home.  Eventually I may change everything to either DCC or AC.  I am toying with the idea of only Flyerchief engines - then I can use my AC Lionel Trainmaster at home and DCC at the club.  If not I have to go DCC at home too.  Expensive and complicated.

Francine posted:

Also, my next project is the replace the light bulbs in the passenger cars with LEDs from Hennings.  They have a complete kit.  My question is does it matter that I run on DCC, or AC?

 

Francine, 

GUNRUNNERJOHN is the person who designed those modules and he is a regular contributor to the forum.  His email is on his profile so you could contact him direct with your question or you could start a new thread with your question so others could chime in and see the answer.

Mike A.

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Francine posted:

Also, my next project is the replace the light bulbs in the passenger cars with LEDs from Hennings.  They have a complete kit.  My question is does it matter that I run on DCC, or AC?

 

Francine - I recently started playing with LED additions to loco's and cars. I used Evan Designs. Their web site was very helpful and made it easy to select the sizes, colors, and wire length.

Thanks guys for the the help, that's why this board is so great.  Unfortunately my vision isn't what it used to be and a back injury 4 years ago has me struggling to do detail work (go figure).  So a kit would probably be best for me now.

I used to and still do build 1/96 scale ship models - RC but am now have difficulty moving the larger ones. As an older gentleman said to me at York, "Getting old is no job for sissies".

 

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