LionChief SP 0-8-0 Keeps Repeating a Voice Message when Under Power

Contact Lionel support and have then replace it.

This isn't the first time I've seen a report of this- probably a different engine but the sound chips are getting bogus or maybe test programs and escape the factory or test environment and end up into users hands.

Here is that topic I remembered https://ogrforum.com/topic/167966364581647271

@miller3 posted:

Hello,

I bought a lionchief daylight 0-8-0 for my little nephew because he loves trains and I was hoping to get him into the hobby.

However my my wife arrived to give it to him, the engine won't connect to the remote and instead just shouts N516 over and over.

The lovomotive moves with both remote and bluetooth, but neither stops the N516 chant from occuring, or turns volume down.

I can't find what this message means anywhere, so any hope from you all to understand what the issue is would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Miller

Also, loving the translation of " in a woman's voice "INSIDE WIMSIC...INSIDE WIMSIC..."

VS

"N516 over and over"

One thing I have done is order a couple of replacement boards from Lionel.  I needed two, one for this annoying board, and one for an identical engine whose sound failed (wiring to tender and speaker are OK and swapping in the board from a working engine mikes it work fine - in other words, not the usual broken tender wire problem).

For reference, the Lionel part for the board seems to be:

Item No. cs-691ENGM516-p

LIONCHIEF PCB / BLUETOOTH / 0-8-0 / SP #4727 / LCBA 4.0 and the price is $79.99 each.

This is the link to the parts page for this engine.  It is part no. 28 on the diagram.

https://www.lionelsupport.com/...LOCO-ONLY-6804727001

Beyond that, I'm wondering if there might be some factory mode switch, or more likely a jumper or even a solder bridge jumper that changes it from this mode to normal.  Or it could be something that is just transmitted to it which would preclude me from doing anything.  Perhaps this is a mode they have to identify which sound profile is in in the board as I'm sure the same boards, hardware-wise, are used elsewhere.  Just wild guessing.  I will look into this after I get the boards, take apart the engines, and start working on them.

I will also contact Lionel, but I'm not expecting much.  But maybe they will surprise me.

Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer

It's M516 (not N) what was the final outcome of the earlier post with the same problem?