LO-V Set problems

Joe,

Do a transformer reset of the engine. The procedure uses the Bell and Horn buttons, and is detailed in the engine's manual. Use 1/2 second button presses with 1/2 second pauses between presses.

Will do Barry and thanks.  Just got word back from the vendor and they said call MTH.  Now, I plan on doing that, but thier window of tech support is right in the middle of my work day.  From what I described above, is this something you've heard of before?  My gut is telling me the board is fried, but I can't imagine what I could have done for this to happen.  I wrote some posts about my nightmare with a PS1 engine a few weeks back, got that solved I think, then this PS2 starts giving me issues.  Despite all the trouble with my PS1 engine, I can work a PS2 pretty well.  But, hearing an electronic "vurpppp" when I press the bell button, then losing lights, I'm scared to even apply power. 

But again, I'll do the reset.  But have you heard of this before?

Joe,

The transformer reset (it's a Feature Reset, not a Factory Reset regardless of what the manual may say) won't make things any worse than they already are. If the reset doesn't set things right, you're most likely looking at a warranty repair.

Early on, I was a conventional PS2 operator and never saw this kind of behavior with the 4 PS2 engines (2 were subways) that I operated. Further, I currently operate 90+ engines under DCS including 11 subways, and have never encountered this kind of an issue.

Of course you've never encountered this kind of thing before Barry, because this is typical "Joe" stuff...and I say that with a laugh, something similar to Chevy Chase's in Christmas Vacation...you know, when he got a years worth of Jelly as a Christmas Bonus?? 

I'm about convinced to give up any revision of Protosounds whatsoever, and just convince my girlfriend to stand beside me when I'm running trains and as I enter the station for a stop, I simply goose her, and she reads from the previously provided script I gave her.  This way, if I screw something up I'll immediately be able to diagnose it by what color the bruise around my eye turns and how swiftly it gets there. 

I'm waiting on folks to start replacing "Murphy's Law" with "Joe's Law".  I know by this point in my life I've got him beat on just about every endeavour possible.

Got home and did a reset on the set using each of my 4 seperate tracks.  I've got (2) z1000's on 2 lines, and a z4000 controling the other 2.  Reset using each line amounted to nothing.  No change.  I contacted MTH earlier today, and it seems I may have a bad sound card.  But again, this set is only 4 days new.  The vendor seems to be willing to work with me after exhausting all other means, and I'm totally at a loss now as to which way to go.  Again, goes into reset, neutral forward and reverse fine.  No sounds either way, and no directional lighting forward.  A slight buzz is now heard when firing up.  I even rotated the sound pot to see if there was a difference.  No change.  Thanks to Barry for the help earlier.  I'm back to playing the waiting game now to see what the vendor wishes to do.  I had planned to buy the Red Lo-V set when this one arrived, but I"m now at a standstill until this first hurdle is corrected.