Legacy Lash up question

I believe yes.  Does the coupler open? G

Actually, it doesn't always fire or open. It's on it's way to Lionel as we speak.

Mike

I have the same set and the non powered A coupler opens but there is no sound.

When it's just the AA I believe it did (it's been about a week since I ran it that way and now it's out for repair) but in a lash up it didn't.

Mike

Check the lash up rope. It may be too tight...

I have this set and it is actually set up to run with all the units having the same loco ID

Matt

That's interesting because it's the one used in the instructional video and Mike Regan says to give the ABA different ID numbers in a lash up. He lists the features you'll get including that the dummy coupler will fire when the Rear coupler button is pushed but unlike with just the AA he doesn't mention the sounds.

I'm confused.

Mike

Before I converted my dummy a unit to powered I set up the ABA with all the same ID and it worked sweet.

Matt,

 

I can see how that would happen. I presume that the reversing lights on all went on in reverse unlike when in a lash up only the non-powered A's headlamp comes on?

 

Mike

All the lights worked correctly and couplers as well. It's pretty slick

The only Legacy MU oddity I've noticed is with the crew talk.  If you configure the crew talk on the lead engine, for some reason all the engines talk.  OTOH, if you move it to a trailing engine, only one engine talks. 

When the non-powered A comes back from Lionel I'll try assigning them all the same ID and see what happens.

John, I haven't noticed sound out of any other unit but the powered A. That's another thing I'll check.

Maybe my coupler sounds issue is related to the faulty coupler.

Stay tuned.

Mike

Try it and see.

 

Heard back from Lionel this morning. Although the instruction manual tells you to give each unit its own ID# when you build a Train that is not the case with the newer Legacy engines, they all should have the same ID#.

 

The non-powered A unit arrives tomorrow from Lionel. I will reprogram them all with the same ID# and see what happens.

 

But first I will see if I get the same crew talk results as John with the powered A as the lead unit.

 

Mike

For a single set, that could be correct.  However, I can't see taking three independent locomotives and giving them one ID.  First off, if you have one running in reverse orientation, it'll start out in the wrong direction.  Also, if they all have electrocouplers, uncoupling will release all the independent locomotives.  Finally, all of them will respond to any crew-talk requests, which sounds pretty lame.

The response was in an e-mail so it was pretty short, I'd have to presume those instructions would be specific to a single set like this one where there is a powered A and a powered B. However, considering the point you make about the electrocouplers I wonder what happens when you fire the rear coupler, which should be the one on the non-powered A, if the powered B's coupler will fire too.

 

We'll see tomorrow.

 

Mike

Okay, I finally got a chance to test the information I received from Lionel regarding running my Legacy Burlington F3 ABBA as a single unit with one ID#. This is their setup and orientation: Powered A, non-powered B, powered B with the backup light and electrocoupler facing the rear, non-powered A.

 

In this confirguration the front coupler of the powered "A" fired with coupler sounds when the F coupler button was pressed, the headlight of the powered "A" unit was on in forward while the backup light of the non-powered "A" unit was on with its marker lights. When I reversed the powered "A" unit its marker and backup lights came on, along with the backup light on the powered "B" unit and the headlight of the non-powered "A" unit.

 

Next I tested the powered "B" and non-powered "A" couplers. Only the non-powered "A" coupler fired when I pressed the R coupler button with coupler sounds.

 

So, it works the way Lionel said it would with the only difference being that in a Train lash up only the headlights and marker lights of the "A" units would come on depending on the direction the train was moving. The individual backup lights remained off.

 

As for the crew talk, I'm getting it only out of the powered "A".

 

Mike