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GE Demo ES44 Ditch Light Problem Fix

kjstrainskjstrainsOGR Forum Member

I received the uncatalogued version of the GE Demo engine with flashing LED charging lights from Patrick Trains yesterday.  I was able to get one of the last ones he had. Very nice engine.
Out of the box everything worked fine accept for my left Ditch Light was not working meaning it did not turn on.  I did reset with no luck. At first I was discouraged of possibility of having to send another new engine back to the manufacture to be repaired.   This morning I did a search on the forum to see if there was easy fix.  I did find 1 threads providing fix for this issue.  However, I found a YouTube
video that helped the most to fix my problem.  By removing the shell and doing a little bit of tweaking I was able to
fix my ditch light.   When searching, I did not see this video posted on the forum anywhere, but I thought I would post this in case anyone has this issue now or in the future. 

 

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kjstrainskjstrainsOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:

In truth, the best way to fix this is to stretch the spring slightly, if you just slide that block up, it can slip back down.  I've had to do this to several locomotives.

 

Good point, John.  I notice the block falling down when I was trying to fix mine.  I tried stretching the springs, but did not work for me.  I probably did not stretch them far enough.  However, I rigged the block in my engine so it would stay from falling down by placing tape on it and then it worked. 

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