I have a Lionel Pennsylvania TMCC crane and boom tender. The sounds in the boom tender work fine, but the crane is dead. I think this has happened before, and I think someone here helped me get this crane working again, but I can't remember how. I've read through the manual again, but she's still dead. I use Legacy on my layout. I haven't used the crane in some time, so it's been on an insulated siding with no power to it. Yesterday I went to address it (with power to the track on full), but the crane didn't respond. The sounds in the boom tender work fine. I've tried to reprogram the number with the remote, but still no response from the crane. I think something like "crane" used to pop up in the display before, but now it doesn't. Does anyone know of some kind of "trick" to get this crane working again?
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Sam,
I had the same situation happen to me. I brought my TMCC crane to a layout using Legacy. I believe you have to address the crane a certain way in the Legacy environment. We didn't do so with mine and now I get no response from it at all using Legacy or TMCC. It was working perfectly on my layout using TMCC beforehand. I've tried reprogramming but no help.
Good luck and make sure you address the crane properly. I don't want you to have the same issue I had.
First off, did you confirm that you have the correct TMCC address and that the Legacy CAB2 isn't addressing the crane as a Legacy device? You have to be in TMCC mode to address the crane. In order to get the crane keypad, you have to select the proper type.
Press Info.
Press Scroll
Press the right hand soft-key until you see CRN, press that softkey.
Press Scroll again
Make sure you have selected TMCC mode
Press Info to exit.
Must be an epidemic. Mine failed about a month ago. Haven't had time to mess with it.
Lionel Gremlins at work with their planned obsolescence program. I understand theres a Legacy crane coming out in the near future.
The Legacy crane is in the 2014 catalog and should be delivered any time now.
According to the manual, it's either ENG#1 by default or the number that you assigned.
Then review this video by Mike. Sets it up for crane in cab-1 mode.
You're probably right about CAB1 mode, though mine seems to work in TMCC mode.
Are your work lights illuminated, run program switch in run and is the led on inside flashing.
Bill