new SW8 doesn't smoke

Can you check the track power current when you switch the smoke on and off?  See if the current increases when you attempt to switch the smoke on.

Does this Legacy locomotive also have the AUX 1 commands for turning smoke on and off as earlier Legacy engines:  AUX1 8- smoke off,  AUX1-9- smoke on?

Ray

Did the stack blow down.  Forgot to mention that.  What kind of current draw should I see?  I will look into the aux command.

You should see a change of around .2 to .3 amps when you turn smoke on and off.

From my experience 15 drops of smoke fluid is not near enough for a brand new dry fan driven smoke unit. I know the manual states 15 to 20 drops but I usually start with at least 30 in a new dry locomotive. However, you probably should have seen a little smoke with 15 drops.

Brad

You have to be a little careful, some of the little switchers have a very small smoke unit.  I typically start a small smoke unit with 20 drops, normally that gets the job done to start.

Hard to tell what type of smoke unit was use.  Recent smoke units Atlas and others, had a TAS (Train America Studio) type smoke unit, with a fan, and a thermistor safety, low level fluid, shut down.  Unfortunately this smoke unit ended in a legal dispute, if my foggy head remembers.    The thermistor had to be positioned, a correct distance, from the smoke heating element.  The blue thing, above picture.  Too much fluid, entered the fan compartment, and was another problem.  There was a fiber wadding material, positioned, in the same compartment, with the smoke/heating element, and thermistor.

Fitting a smoke unit, in, an already crowded, SW unit, there may be piping, with bends, that inhibits, the smoke.

Thanks for all the input.  I will try your suggestions over the weekend and see what happens.

Thanks to all your help.  Problem solved, ultimately I earned a dope slap.  It smokes fine.  Smoothest slow speed runner I have, really happy with that.  

How about letting the rest of us know what the problem was, and how you solved it?

Yes, we'd love to deliver the Dope Slap, but we also like to know what the issue was for posterity.

Yes, please share what you found as the fix.

Ray

"dope"? I thought that was what we used on our balsa and tissue airplane models... 😊

Mark in Oregon

PS: just hoping to spur a response...🙂

Smoke switch off?

To let everybody know what  the fix was,  is simply to STUDY the instruction manual , not just read it.  I also had to get out the Legacy base manual and apply additional set up info because I couldn't get the smoke to work just going through the locomotive manual.  The key and I am repeating it was to STUDY the instructions.  That is why I earned a dope slap, but I also wonder if  many people who also are not experienced with Legacy claim quality issues when it is really set up issues.