My ZW-L is about 4 yrs old. I have power going into the unit, but no power coming out of any of the A through D posts. The volt/amp meters are all backlit but there's no voltage or amperes shown on them. I've reset all of the circuit breakers still nothing. I was running trains and instantly lost power to the rails, no indication of any shorts anywhere in my layout. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you Dana
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I am not sure this will be of any help - so take with a grain of salt. There is a switch on the back of the ZW-L for Conventional operation versus Command operation. If the switch is in Command operation, and no Legacy/TMCC signal is detected, the Lionel logo will blink, and you will not get any voltage out of the ZW-L. So if you are running the ZW-L in Command mode, and the Logo is blinking, could mean that either the ZW-L is broke, the Legacy/TMCC base is broke, or the ground reference from the Legacy/TMCC base to the ZW-L is now open.
If you are running ZW-L Conventional mode, still check to see if the Logo is blinking. This would indicate the Command/Command switch got accidentally moved to Command.
The switch is in command mode, the blue Lionel stays lit and doesn't blink.
Thank you Dana
So the next thing I would try is to use the process to assign an ID to the transformer just to see if this would rattle the programming within the ZW-L.
Sorry I couldn't be of much help.
I'm about to go to the train room and try your suggestions.. Thank you for your help.
Dana
not sure but I seem to remember my hobby shop working on one and there were 2 switches to select the two left and right handles and you have to have them selected and then power up the zwl. after the reboot the transformer worked ok he had called Lionel and Lionel prompted him threw the steps!
Thank you everyone for your input, still no success I'll send it to SC let them deal with it.
Dana
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