Lionmaster Smoke unit Conventional

The fan should not operate with the smoke switch off or when you turn it off using the CAB1.

Does the smoke work under TMCC control?

I don't know, I only have conventional transformer.

Thanks.

When running conventional, regardless of the last setting of TMCC, the smoke unit should operate based on the switch setting on the unit.  If your switch is "on" it should work.

I suspect an issue with the smoke unit or wiring.  Either the wick is bad, a wire is broken, or the smoke resistor has died.  I don't see any way to diagnose this without taking the shell off.

I see Lionel sells just the resistor, is there a way to test the exiting one with a voltmeter?

*UPDATE*  I pulled off the shell tested the ohms of the resistor, I think around 7 - if my meter was set right.  And around 2 volts (not easy while engine moving).

Now the smoke unit works

Maybe it was just a loose connection.

I suspect you're right about the loose connection.

Tests like these are made for test blocks, they allow you to run the train on the bench without it going anywhere.

Hopefully thats all it was, some of the lionmaster locos had defective smoke unit regulators. I believe OGR did a review on this loco and mentioned poor smoke output on their test unit. I had a tmcc lionmaster challenger that would smoke sometimes and sometimes none at all. One day it smoked like crazy and burned up the resistor. It was a faulty smoke unit regulator,Lionel has these in stock for like $12 or $15 if need be.