Originally Posted by RickO:
Originally Posted by Kerrigan:
Nope, don't have Legacy or the manual. So it's just Legacy smoke units that are the problem.
Specifically the fan motors are defective, on mine the fan rotated in an orbital motion like the bushings were out of round.Holding the fan in my fingers and getting it to spin powering the loco it vibrated my fingertips. The new one didn't vibrate at all.
Ordered a replacement fan motor and installed it and problem solved. No more "3 cab light blinks" and the smoke unit is now one of the quietist in my fleet.
FWIW, I oiled the fan bushings out of the box, that helped for a few months, then it quit altogether, the new fan is a night and day difference from the one that was in the loco, even at first power up.
So, after you replaced the motor did the noise of the puffing stop. That is my issue. The puffing noise is so loud that it overwhelms the sound system. And yes I have it turned up to full volume.
If I turn off the sound completely and run the engine with the smoke unit turned on the noise from the puffing smoke unit almost sounds like a chuff.
I like this engine but if I can't resolve the noise issue when the puffing unit is in operation I'm afraid the only solution is to get rid of it. I've only had it since York in April and it is the only Legacy steamer that I have. I doubt if I would ever buy another one unless Lionel figures a better way to get puffing smoke.
Too bad they can't do it the same way MTH does via software but that would violate MTH's patent.