I have a tmcc sd80mac that wont smoke(resistor wont heat up fan will run) the owner I bought it from said it smoked fine when he had it. Could it be a lose wire from shipping?
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Could be a few different things, what’s the Lionel product number ?
Alex
Alex
I would carefully remove the shell and do a visual inspection.
Looking at the smoke unit itself that I believe your locomotive has, I would disconnect both sets of wires (noting what goes where!) and then see if you get 8 ohms across the two solder joints I circled in red:
If not, then you know the heating element has gone bad. You can probably just get a 691RES8OHM 8 ohm heating element from Lionel and replace it. If you don't feel like soldering, or the issue isn't readily the heating element, Lionel also does have the 610-4572-200 smoke unit as a whole available.
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The product number is 6-31993.
Thanks for the product number. That confirms my presumptions and thus the advice in my prior post stands.
