I remember reading on this forum a while ago that the Lionel 6 Ohm smoke units are pretty much destined to fail. Is there anything that can be done to prevent failure on a perfectly operating one? Would changing the resistor to an 8 Ohm hurt the smoke production or the circuitry, or is it not worth doing anything and to leave it as a ticking time bomb.
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Best change the resistor to 8 ohms. Thats what Lionel did on the later engines and what they did when these were sent in for repair. The 6 ohm resistor will take out the AC regulator which is NLA.
Pete
@Norton posted:Best change the resistor to 8 ohms. Thats what Lionel did on the later engines and what they did when these were sent in for repair. The 6 ohm resistor will take out the AC regulator which is NLA.
Pete
Thank you, that’s kind of what I figured but I wanted to be sure before I went through with it.
There was a service bulletin on the resistor change, but I can't find it now.
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