Hi all,
I went down to train room today to run my Legacy E-6. I applied power and received a horrible noise from the speaker and smoke coming out of the tender. After I shut off power I went and opened up the tender and saw this:
As you can see my board decided to kill itself. Luckily Lionel has a wonderful customer service and they quickly gave me an R.A. number to ship this thing back along with another board instead of the entire engine. The technician even said that having a railsounds board melt is extremely unusual but it managed to happen on mine. Hopefully all parties can learn from this and Lionel maybe can find a fault in the construction of their boards and MAYBE make their product quality better. I ran this engine two days before this happened and this is the 3rd time (yeah you heard me correctly 3rd time) I have sent this engine in for repairs.