Help! Installing Cruise Commander M (Revised)

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WOW!  I'm surprised No one here knows any thing about these boards.

Well anyway, I decided to put it all back together (minus the mystery wires)

Well that did Not work! In command environment, (18v) Train took off like a bat out of ****, In reverse!

If you know, Please Let me know what I did wrong!

Thanks!

ZAK.......Please hang on for a bit. There are several people here that will help but likely missed your original post. I have added cruise M's to two Kline TMCC Steamers with the same cruise board. The fried board you have is the same one I replaced on both. They do have a history of failure. I am unable to help tonight but will check in tomorrow. Be aware that wire color can be different on kline products from year to year.

Richard

ZAK....my email is in my profile. I have a word file of cut and pasted notes with info taken from posts on OGR on this topic. Send me your email and i'll send it to you.

Richard

Let’s see if we can get you running ….can you post up a picture of what you’ve got so far? ……close ups if possible?…….a runaway with a M usually is indicative of serial missing from the M, …..The M should be fairly easy to wire. 2 wires for motors, ( they’re parallel ) hot & a not, and serial in….

Pat

Are you using the CCM instructions you can download from ERR website?  Pretty helpful with pictures for various installs.  A K line Cruise will have some wire installed that are not used on the CCM.  Just follow instructions.  G

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Thanks Everyone!

There was a little urgency, I have a train show tomorrow. But I can wait until next month.

Richard, email sent!

Pat, I've attached some pics!

G, I did down load and print out the instructions! I tried to follow them the best I could, Must have missed something though

I double checked the Pwr. & motor leads against ERR instructions, Look fine to me (although the motor leads may need to be swapped out.

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Oh, there are three wires that I did not connect;

A Black that was solder to the back of the MDK board,

A Blue that went to connector labeled [GND],

and that Yellow (mentioned in OP) ????

Verify your power, ground, & motor leads plugged into the Cruise M. Be sure they are in the correct slots on the black Molex connector. Some Kline’s reversed from factory. (Power & ground) ……Verify serial is being fed to the Cruise M. The instructions are crystal clear about that. …….Id unplug all the other stuff you’ve plugged into the Cruise M. As stated above, not everything from the Kline driver will be reused on the M. I’d get the locomotive running first like it’s supposed to be, then see what features you’re missing. ( lighting, etc. )

Pat