I have a 4-6-4 hudson my father had purchased for me, he recently passed so i brought it back to my layout to find it no longer makes the noise any help where to start a "do it myself repair" ? Please
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Originally Posted by SeanJames:
I have a 4-6-4 hudson my father had purchased for me, he recently passed so i brought it back to my layout to find it no longer makes the noise any help where to start a "do it myself repair" ? Please
Easiest and most likely, is a dead battery, or your volume is all the way down.
If you have the manual. Both of these will have details. If you need the manual go to mthtrains.com. you can search for the part number (if you have the box), or Hudson and the cab number, if you don't. You will be able to download or browse a pdf user manual, from there.
1) Find your volume pot. Is the sound just turned down?the speaker is in the tender, so the pot is either on the bottom, or it may be on top, if you have any plates that open.
2) leave it in neutral with 3/4 track power (ish), for 15 minues. It may just need a charge. If that doesn't work, open the tender and look at the battery. There were 2 types. 1 looked like a 9V, the other like 2 AA batteries with a shrinkwrap coating. You can buy replacement at a Hobby Shop, or online.
There was also a bad run of speakers that flaked and shorted themselves out.
Most went scratchy and garbled first but if it was boxed for a while this could be the issue.
Take a look at the speaker when you open it.
Thanks guys the volume pot is on that was the first thing i checked. I didnt find success charging the 2.4v shrink wrapped battery so im gonna have to replace the speaker i believe and advice on how to take that step? Thanks guys this is a true help
I didnt find success charging the 2.4v shrink wrapped battery so im gonna have to replace the speaker
Do not replace the speaker! That is most likely not the problem!
Since your battery is 2.4 volts, you do not have a 5 volt PS2 engine, rather, your engine is the newer 3 volt system. These did not have the chronic speaker deterioration that did the 5 volt systems.
Just do a Feature Reset of the engine, either through DCS or from the transformer if you don't have DCS.
From DCS: Menu/System/Advanced, select the engine, press the thumbwheel to select the engine, and then press it again to confirm.
From the transformer: refer to the manual that came with the engine. Use 1/2 second button presses and 1/2 second pauses in between presses.
This and a whole lot more is all in "The DCS O Gauge Companion 2nd Edition", now available for purchase as an eBook or a printed book from MTH's web store site! Click on the link below to go to MTH's web page for the book!
Thanks so much! I wasnt looking forward to touching that speaker! I will try and reset DCS but i have the conventional control setup with horn, bell, and direction buttons... Ive tried the reset codes but still nothing, i think my next step will be replacing the battery... Again thank you all for the help!
See if somebody you know has an MTH Z-4000, this will make the reset much easier to do, the Z-4000 has preset step-levels.
Lee F.
