On certain sections of my layout my Legacy engines will often lose all sound effects. The engine continues to respond to the throttle, but to restore sound I have to shut down and restart engine to get sound back. What causes this and is there anyway to remedy it? Thanks.
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Typical of some early Legacy RS boards. My fix is to install a battery, or even better my YLB - RailSounds Battery Replacement, it will never require replacement again. This is pretty common on certain steamers as the tender only has two rollers.
Ditto...
Try cleaning the track and pickup rollers. If that doesn't work, John has the answer.
I just ran into this with a RS 5.5 board. Battery didn't help. The fix was to pull the chips and clean the contacts with contact cleaner. RS 5.5 is built like RS 4 and 5 with removable chips. Later Legacy with RS6 has a chip that is soldered to the board so ignore this suggestion if thats what you have.
you need a tool to do this. Don't use a screw driver.
Pete
Specifically, a PLCC extractor tool, like this:
There have been a few that just wanted a battery, and they didn't respond to the cleaning the contacts. My go-to solution is to first clean the rollers, check the wiring, and then reseat the PLCC chips, that does fix a variety of ills, especially in older units. Harry Henning and I have several Legacy locomotives that didn't respond to any fix but the battery, that solved the problem for those.
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