334DC Help

Hi,

I have attached a page from the website "MY FLYER TRAINS.ORG". This is info on the whistle used in the DC trains Gilbert made. Hope this helps you out. The situation with the power pick up not coming through the tender trucks sounds like a broken wire, this is not an uncommon problem for these old locomotives but easily diagnosed with an ohm meter and fixed with a soldering iron.

Ray

I am sorry, the question about wiring in the tender did not penetrate this thick head of mine til I reread.

Ray

The two wires that come from the tender attach directly to the trucks - one wire to each truck. If you have an ohmmeter, check for continuity, one wire to one truck and the other wire to the other truck.

If either wire is open, take the tender shell off and fix it.

If both wires show continuity to their respective trucks, see how the tender wheels are configured.

One truck will have the metal wheels on the left and the other truck will have the metal wheels on the right.

If there are no metal wheels on one or the other truck, that is a problem.

If all the metal wheels are on the same side, ie, touching the same rail, that is a problem.

Thanks guys, i got the engine and tender all figured out.

Now I am waiting to see if the customer has the No. 15 rectifier to go with the set to test it out. All they brought me was the AC transformer and the Electronic whislte control.

So... what was the problem with the loco/tender?

You can run the loco with a transformer and a bridge rectifier.

Oh, sorry, There was a bad wire.