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Bought a new Legacy Diesel for my grandson for Christmas and am testing it.  It is a New York Central GP-30 Product Number 2433132.

It is to be used with the Lion Chief Universal Remote and the Lionchief App.  He has no Legacy base.

It has some limited functions and acts much like a LionChief Plus 2.0 which I sort of expected, but I noticed that the smoke output is very low.  I put 15 drops of Protosmoke in for starters (manual said 10-20 drops).  Had to puff air into chamber to get it going (normal).  But the smoke volume is very low and stops frequently.

Thinking I flooded it, I turned it upside down and blew out the chamber with compressed air and put in less, but the same thing happened.  It smokes for awhile, but lower than any other engines I have tried with fan driven smoke.

Advice?

Thanks,

John

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@tom21pa posted:

it has a very odd funnel to the smoke unit if i recall,  my 2 i tilt the back of the engine up so the fluid goes to smoke unit, try downloading the app & you can adjust smoke output

OK.  Tilting definitely helped.

I don't see anything that suggests that the smoke is variable on the app?   Do you need a legacy base for that to appear?

Thanks,

John

You need the base to adjust smoke output but it sounds like to me you do not have enough fluid in it. 15 drops is not enough for a newer fan driven smoke unit. I would add 10 more drops and see what you got. I do recall a past thread about these being difficult to get the fluid to the right place. My experience with my Legacy locomotives is the smoke seems to be defaulted to high. Mine smoke like my MTH locomotives. I am not using a base either. Just the app or universal remote.

Brad

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