I just swapped my wheels out on a ac6000 from 3 rail to 2 rail, set the engine on the track it went for a second and died. I took the board out and it is definitely fried. Does anyone know why this would happen? I would eventually like to upgrade to ps3 once the boards are available, should I just wait? I took the scale wheels out and put them in another locomotive and everything worked just fine, I'm just baffled why the board blew in the first place.
thanks, paul
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Obviously, something got shorted or crossed during the maintenance. I doubt the presence of the scale wheels had anything to do with it. 
What model is this? Is it a PS-2 5V or a PS-2 3V system? Are you talking scale wheels or 2 rail verses 3 rail wheels? How do you know the board is fried?
PS-3 is probably a ways off for an upgrade kit.
Depending what board set it is it could be repairable.
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