NEED PS1 REFRESHER

Joe that what engine does in netural. When engine is moving works right but i think there is a way you can get horn to work in netural but not sure. 

You can program the horn in neutral, I forget the exact option.

Thanks John I'll have to look into downloading the manual I think it might be bad or what Jesse said about not having a going in forward when I try to activate it

Thanks

Joe

It's working correct. The horn button rings the bell in neutral. You can activate the horn to work in neutral but I forgot how. It does tell you in the instruction manual.

To allow the loco horn in neutral, put the loco on the track, power up in reset or neutral, put 10 volts or less on the track, push the horn button. If the bell rings, do a reset 25, and press the whistle button. The engine will play a series of bells, which indicates the setting. One bell indicates no horn in neutral, two bells indicates horn in neutral. When the desired setting is achieved, lock the changes by turning throttle off and on, the loco should move forward and should sound the horn in neutral. So says the MTH Service notes. If you do a reset 18 to default settings, you will have to redo the reset 25.

My PS1 "exposure" has yielded no horn/whistle in Neutral, only in F or R, as the Horn can be used in Neutral-state programming. Don't recall the bell. My knowledge is slim, but PS1 horns and Neutral cane be mutually exclusive - a normal thing -, at least on mine...

Then there's the old favorite: the transformer-compatibility possibilities, and the "version" of PS1 (there seem to be multiple ones, all mysterious). Lots written about that, some years ago.

I think. I tend to upgrade the ones I like, anyway, so PS1 goes away.

Glad I could help!

D500 posted:

My PS1 "exposure" has yielded no horn/whistle in Neutral, only in F or R, as the Horn can be used in Neutral-state programming. Don't recall the bell. My knowledge is slim, but PS1 horns and Neutral cane be mutually exclusive - a normal thing -, at least on mine...

Read the post above yours.

Ok thanks everyone. You are all correct! The owners manual is not available on MTH website. I also called MTH, and they had to look for it and was not sure it was available. So, I did it the hard way.

Went on the Bay and searched similar completed auctions and found a similar engine with PS1,then went back to MTH website and looked it up. To my surprise, the manual was available and I printed it.

The manual confirmed no horn in neutral unless doing the reset 25.

Thanks again,

Joe Gozzo

The Reason for all this is....... the predominate transformer was the PW ZW and there was no bell button.  So the design allowed you to turn the bell on in neutral with the whistle button and than in motion whistle button controlled whistle.  Stop the engine to turn bell off with whistle button.  Not perfect but remember this started in the 90s.  Once bell buttons became more prominent the software was added to select whistle in neutral since you now had a bell button for any time use.   G