I have an early production Legacy Base. It came with version 1.3. I've updated it as new versions were available and its currently at 1.6. Last night while running the layout, I had two engines break into a run away. One was a legacy centipede and one was a TMCC k4. Luckily I am quick on the halt button to prevent any damage. Today, I had a TMCC gp30 do a runaway. I doubt all these engines are having board failures so I started to check things out. I noticed that the Legacy base is flashing the Yellow light while I am sending commands to the remote. When that happens, things start to go bad. If the yellow light stops flashing, everything seems to work ok again. Trying to lower or raise the voltage on the ZW-L when the yellow light is on, causes it immediately max out or go to zero.
I can only assume the base needs to go to Lionel for repair? I also have hooked up to the base the Y cable and the old Cab1. I also have the Zstuff data driver for the dz2500 switch machines. Would any of these cause a problem? I've been running this setup for a few years now and this trouble just started this week.
. I only have a cab1, dz data driver, and a tmcc accessory voltage controller paired to a 180 brick. 2 transformers power the layout. Zw-l is connected to the legacy base. A z powers all my accessories but that is not connected to the base.
