Okay, I've pretty much completed my upgrade of my conventional Lionel Mikado to ERR Cruise, RS5, and fan driven smoke. The only thing left is the smoke unit.
The problem is, after I replaced the 16ohm original resistor with an 18ohm, it won't smoke. I've checked everything that I thought would cause the issue - wire to either side of the resistor, check for pinched wire, fluxed the ends, drained the chamber - but still nothing. The fan would spin perfectly according to chuff sound, but no smoke would come out, and I made sure the fan spun clockwise.
I'm not sure what was wrong, but I took my multimeter to each end of the resistor in the unit when I powered it up under track power, and this really scratched my head.
The multimeter would snap up and down on power readings constantly, like the power was coming to it intermittently, rather than the multimeter having a constant power going to it. I don't know much about MTH smoke units, but I'm more than willing to learn more what this issue is in case it rears its ugly head again.
