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Delete your old version and download the new. Its Finally here THE UPDATED "2019 Revision" Update includes Bluetooth connections and simple information about service. Updated Diagrams for wiring variations of the LEGACY RCMC and RailSounds LITE boards, General info changes. I also made some corrections with battery leads (thanks to John's observation) At some point ill start adding/creating diagrams about other boards such as ones used in Lionel's newer Vision locos.

....but seriously delete the old version.

Click this Link to the Original Posting if you want to learn the reason of me making these if you don't know already.

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Bruk has done some great work on this.  He is also a certified Lionel Tech.  Until many of us can get back to Lionel school, we will all use  this great work.  

John, on my best day I could not put out the information he has done.  If anyone else could have done it, they would have.  I always appreciate good work and he nailed it.  People in the hobby appreciate the great work you have done with Lionel products.  We live at a good time in the hobby with some great products.

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enginEErjon posted:

Not only is this information extremely helpful, but the detail in your diagrams is truly impressive!! You are a powerpoint master, no doubt! Did you generate all the objects yourself?  I was very impressed with the detail on your LED and Heating Elements 

 

Yes, everything was built from scratch with lines, circles and squares. All shaded and over laid to see what you see.

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Bruk, I'm a newbie to this train stuff.  It looks like quite a few train buffs are appreciative of your efforts.

I'm here to tell you I sure appreciate your efforts also.  Even though I don't have any of these particular engines, I can appreciate the help they will provide to others at some point in time.  Absolutely Awesome drawings!!!!  It's too bad that Lionel don't produce these same high quality detailed drawings for their products so you have more time to do more fun things.  I'm still trying to diagnose by Thomas & Friend diesel problem and was looking for some technical info on the board as I'm trying to figure out where my sound switch plugs into the board.  (actually there is only one place but I'm not sure the others are in their correct place).  That's how I discovered them.  Tx for your hard work!

Hotbox posted:

WOW! Fantastic job Bruk. Up to now I was unaware of your extraordinary documentation efforts but I just downloaded your epic compilation for potential future reference. 

Thanks again,

Ken

There will be an update really soon which includes a correction to the batttery hook up on the RS Lite and I will also include a basic diagram on the Bluetooth Reciever. 

Does anyone know how to check the smoke outputs on the RCMC. I have a new engine that started to smoke like crazy I’ve ran it for 5 minutes between low, med, and high there seams to be no change. It started to smell suspiciously so a cracked it open found a wire to a ground light smashed against the frame by the shell and burned in two. Then check the smoke unit and the batting is chard. Both elements come out to 10ohms, just wanna make sure all is well, if the RCMC regulators are fried it’s a trip back to Lionel but if I can get away with fixing the wire myself and avoid the Lionel trip I’d feel a lot better 

First stop, fix the smoke unit wiring  What I do is power stuff like that up with a variable transformer so it can't get maximum voltage in the case there's still a flaw.  You can check the smoke element control using a 12V automotive bulb, look for one that draws 500-600ma, but a maximum of an amp.  That would be a 6 to 12 watt bulb.  With that across the heater outputs, you should be able to see it go out when you turn the smoke off, and change intensity between low/medium/high.  If all that works, the smoke heater output is probably OK.  This is also how I test TMCC and early Legacy smoke regulators.

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@gunrunnerjohn 

while I was thinking of trying your light bulb I realized that I’m going to have to remove the elements to do this sand if it is bad it should be warranty, (don’t want to make it too obvious I suck my nose in it). Out of Curiosity I repacked the unit primed it and like before works good with a suspicious amount of smoke at “low” I checked voltage across the element thinking at the very least that should change but no matter what intensity I was on it’d jump around between 4.3VDC and 4.7VDC occasionally it’d hit 5VDC and might drop just below 4VDC. On the plus side after cleaning the elements and the getting the 10min old factory batting out it didn’t stink. 

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