I am looking at an early PS3.0 Hiawatha Hudson, Premier line item, which I believe was one of the first PS3.0 engines. Are there any technical issues or problems with original PS3.0 electronics?
Thanks.
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My Railking Northern was an earlier PS3 and I've had no troubles.
Some folks have had issues with the wireless drawbar not staying connected well.
Mine has been no problem but I leave it on the tracks and don't disconnect and reconnect the bar. I also have not run around any sharp curves with it.
The other issue was a DCS signal issue due to the routing of interior wires. That's been discussed here, the fix was to move the wires away from the inductor in question on the PS/3 board.
I have the green City of Denver and the 400E Red Comet set.
No issues so far.
Paul,
The Hiawatha had no troubles. The signal problems mentioned above were on diesel boards not the steam. You should be good to go.
Dave
The PS3 equipped Chapelon and Bavarian Pacifics, which were some of if not the earliest PS3 locomotives I believe, had a resistor value problem on a circuit card. If not corrected, the loco would stop working and/or other damage might result [ I am recalling the wording of the MTH advisory from memory here ]. A quick OGR Forum search turns up mention of it in November 2011, but I think it was on the MTH website as well.
Whether any domestic prototype MTH locos were afflicted or not I can't say. A friend of mine has both these locos and I remember nagging -- I mean, reminding -- him at the time to get the mod done before he powered them up, as he was 'layout deprived' and they might be out of warrenty when he eventually first ran them.
Best regards, SZ
Edited to add: The Service Advisory is still on the MTH website, and it mentions only the Chapelon and the 241A as being affected. [ My friend also had the 241A, so I recalled two locos, just got one wrong above.]
