Now I'm a at loss. I'm trying to narrow stuff down or rule things out.
I've got a triplex that has several issues and I'm getting them fixed one at a time.
I've got the engine to chuff now and the tender is working too. There are three smoke units overall. The one in the tender is working fine. The main unit only has the fan running, no smoke output. There's a smoking whistle that does nothing.
I'm checking all the wires for continuity and they seem OK?
I took out the main smoke unit and the elements look like they were never, ever turned on? They have resistance across the terminals and I applied about four volts and heard them start to work. The fan works fine with a battery too.
I pulled out the smoking whistle unit and it checks out fine too?
I tried another board set from a G gauge dash 8. Still no smoke???
So I'm left thing there's something about the triplex's smoking whistle that has it's own control board. Maybe there's something not turning the smoke on? or shorting something out?
The smoke units (main and tender slave) appear to be wired in parallel to the boards smoke pins and I would think at least the main unit is independent anyways and should work? I ran voltage thru the wires and the main smoke works? Now I'm stumped!
