This morning I went to fire up my four legacy locos as a train but one of the 4 didn't have its wheel moving. So I powered everything down and removed them from the tracks so I could reset/reprogram the locomotive having trouble. I followed Lionel's instructions for reseting the loco but it would not respond. Instead the heating element got red hot and smoke billowed out like it was at full load with the throttle at speed step 200. I powered the track down and put the loco in program mode but it kept the heating element red hot once I powered the track back up. I shut it down and removed legacy from the layout. I wanted to see if i could run it in conventional but instead I get the forward and reverse lights on at the same time. The heating element was red hot again. I let it sit for an hour or two then came back to it. This time I deleted the loco from the cab2, added it back as new, and it ran but I heard a weird noise like a pop inside the loco. It ran in legacy but now I am worried it won't last long like there is a problem with the electrical board. Any suggestions? I had had it for a little less than 2 years.
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The one was at our club, the 10-wheeler went in the long tunnel smoking normally, when it came out, it was AMAZING. The owner was perplexed when I went for the kill switch as soon as I saw it and realized what had happened. Ended up replacing the smoke unit PCB impeller, fan motor, and of course, the voltage regulator. It took no more than 15-20 seconds max to totally destroy the smoke unit.
