Anyone willing and /or able to repair a Lionel ZWC? I can send it with or with out Brick.
Regards,
Mike
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Anyone willing and /or able to repair a Lionel ZWC? I can send it with or with out Brick.
Regards,
Mike
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Winger,
Mike, Jim Lawsan, O Gauge Jim on the OGR, fixes most ZW and KW Transformers. He may repair the ZW-C's also, I am not sure. I would contact him and ask him, he does seriously nice professional work.
PCRR/Dave
Parts for that are getting hard to find. I run one for lighting with 180 bricks on all outputs. I have two for parts. Usually the plastic part that holds the pot goes. Lionel makes a metal base that works great. What is your situation?
Marty.
This one has the metal brackets. I purchased it a a toy train auction house about a year ago. I originally turned it on after purchasing it, but I didn't thoroughly check it out. Now there's no output. The green power light comes on and I believe after a few seconds the red light starts flashing. Which is something else new. This is a second system. Therefore I'm 99.9% sure all bricks are good. I've used the bricks on the other system.
If interested contact me via email.
Regards,
Mike
I ran into that two times and here is what I remember. On the right side pot is a brown wire that broke off and was hanging down finding ground. Like I said I hit the same thing two times. Very strange. It might be worth knocking the top off and giving it a look. If you already have the metal brackets, things have been moved inside and you may get lucky.
I am a fan of this unit. Only if the people at Lionel then did it right with the metal bracket from the start. The guys today would do that one right. What a great replacement for the old under powered ZW that unit was.
I'll give it a look.
Mike
Does anyone have schematics in PDF format for the ZWC?
Mike
Winger posted:Does anyone have schematics in PDF format for the ZWC?
Lionel doesn't typically publish internal schematics, therefore they aren't available.
TRW
Mike, I am awake for another hour. I will crack one of my parts units and confirm for you. Back in a few minutes.
Mike, purple in the center and blue on the bottom.
Thank you and good night.
Mike
Here is a few pics I took when I replaced the plastic retainers with new aluminum pot holders. Hope this may help.
Reattached wires properly. No output on channel 1 with only 1 brick attached. I'll run more test Sunday with Multiple bricks and channel jumpers.
Regards,
Mike
Do you have any TMCC/Legacy bases on?
No this is a unit that, I was using for testing Locomotives on the bench. Probably the circuit card.
Mike
That board is not to be had at Lionel. I know a guy who has an extra and it can not be had. Before you give up, I am sure you have given this unit a good going over. If the metal bases were put in, more wires may be broken.
Marty,
I was going to try and have th plastic pot bracket. ( The one holding the 2 pots )
made at one point. I lost the extra bracket that I had and didn't want to reopen my working ZW-C's . If you have one of those brackets even with the crack in it send it to me.
The board is repairable....to a point. The output drivers....
ss
I definitely have a wiring diagram for this transformer. But, finding it is another issue. I will give it a look tonight.
Mike,
Even if you get your ZW-C back on line I would use it sparingly, as you can see getting some of the parts is a night mare. Woody has a Z4K for sale on the OGR for sale board for just over $300.00, I highly recommend the Z4K, with a side receiver or the new ZW-L.
As MartyF points out yours is not the only ZW-C that has had this problem. I love the Lionel ZW's old and new, just not this particular one.
PCRR/Dave
Tagging on to this old post since it seems to have the ZWC experts. I purchased one on eBay with 2 180 bricks for $275. All outputs are right at 18 volts and properly change when the ABCD levers are moved. The problem is the C/D levers. Both levers will move skip with a light grind past the off/20v mark in both directions, like some gears are missing teeth or a sprocket is loose. When I look inside, the left gear assy, pictured above in Texastrain 3rd photo, seems to be fine, gears properly aligned, not missing teeth. If I move the levers, the visible gears seem to turn properly, no skipping or jumping over teeth. Yet, the handles, with a minimum amount of force, will skip up or down a few hash marks.
I suspect it is a gear or something aligned in the center of the levels, just not visible. My question is do I need to take the left side gear assembly and other components out to get to the internal C/D levers?
Thanks for any help.
Mike
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