Hi: I have a 2-Rail Weaver Diesel Locomotive (Model # 1500L), I attach a 12 Volt DC lead from a Lionel Power Transformer and the dual motors buzz and that is it. Is there a chance they are set for AC ? Or I might be looking at another problem. I do not run 2-Rail and got this by mistake so I do not have the ability to try to run it, just connecting leads to get a response...... Thanks a lot hope someone can help !
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I wasn’t aware that Lionel made a DC transformer? What Lionel transformer exactly is it?
might be your problem right there. The two rail models I have had are Not AC run.
NOTE: This is the wrong sub-forum.
2 rail 0 is usually DC. Lionel transformers are, with limited exceptions, AC. The behavior you describe occurs when using AC on a DC motor, this can quickly lead to motor failure.
Lionel made DC train sets in 3R during the General Mills / MPC era however they were the bottom end sets. A 2 Rail locomotive can be identified as not having a center pick-up and also typically is has fixed pilots and scale size wheels where the flange is significantly smaller than a 3 rail counterpart. Weaver made their trains in 2 rail and 3 rail so you do have to pay attention.
Since you used the fixed DC output, I would think the locomotive should have functioned properly unless it has DCC which requires 18V.
THANK YOU GUYS ! Your answers gave me the information I needed. I'm not a 2-Railer guy. I don't have a DC transformer in the house so will have to go to and outside source. I noted all of my Lionel equipment is AC, (made a quick contact, saw the response and got right off the terminal). I'm going to remember this one and where I got the help !
@Leroof posted:I wasn’t aware that Lionel made a DC transformer?
They might call them transformers, but they ain't. A transformer is AC in, AC out.
They have transformers inside, whose AC output(s) are rectified to DC, making the whole package, to be accurate, a "power supply."
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