need help with my new proto sounds 3 steamer

Make sure you did not bend a pin on the draw bar connection.  Make sure it is fully seated.  Make sure the internal connector on the engine and/or tender side did not come unconnected from the drawbar.

 

Basically the engine is not fully connected to the tender, which is why it is not functioning correctly.   G

I can check the tender pins easy =, but how do it check to see if the drawbar is connected to the engine correctly, unscrew it from engine and check wires?  thanks for you 1st answer,

You should be able to see if it is unconnected from under the engine and tender.  G

ok all tender male pins are all nice and straight and the engine pug is firmly mtg,  Does that mean I may have bent the drawbar it got twisted once but only a max of maybe 45 degrees.  thank for continued help

 

what about connector on tender.  you may need to remove tender shell.  G

ok, is there a plug in for that to come apart as I had  shell off to put in a better speaker.

The terminal can come out of the header, or possibly the plug in the board came out, or a wire broke.  G

Just checked the tender under a magnifier and found all wires all over the tender connected as they should . no wire is just hanging loose and all wires terminate in a plug connected to a board including the main group of wires connected to the tender  to engine plug.  Any other suggestions? and again thankyou for helping me.  I supposed I will have to send it in for repair as I have only had it for a month and it should be under warranty,  I have the original paper work.  I was a Christmas present and was on display on the fireplace until this weekend.  It worked fine until I pulled the shell to see what kind of speaker it had and didn;t seem to allow for any better sound and it did not.  I am used to my legacy engines and they have way superior sound,  Now to just see why it quit with just removing the tender shell.

I'd almost bet money that the problem is that the drawbar is not sufficiently plugged into the socket on the tender.

Have you checked the plug on the engine side of the tether?

Ralph

Is it possible that by twisting the bar some solder joint got cracked a bit or the traces inside the bar broke? Just guessing!

The plug to the tender snaps down good and it will not go any further down.  Im think that the problem is in the drawbar itself.  I hate mth system as it seems way too weak to stand the rigors of use.  the lionel system works flawlessly.  I haveother dcs systems with the wired plug and never any trouble whith then,  I will call mth in the am.

Did you check the engine side of the drawbar? That plug can come loose.

Ralph

I told him to check all that in my second post.  We have hit all the easy stuff.  Now it is the more tedious (broken wire, broken solder joint, pushed pin or connector).  G

My bad I missed tgat for some reason.

Ralph

My bad I missed that for some reason.

Ralph