Neighbor called me to come over, seems he is having a problem with a MTH F3 Diesel.
Here's the outlay, he has 2 loops, of course with sidings etc. The inner is seperated by a block. He's running his MTH as conventional on the outside loop, with the inner loop controlled by legacy. He has 2 seperate powermasters, command bases, set for each. Seems that the outer loop, running conventional, the Diesel starts up, then the engine sound stops, there is no horn or whistle, yet can be controlled to run in both directions. We only live a block apart, so I ran home and got a transformer, hook track to it, and Diesel ran perfectly with all crew talk, engine sound, horn and bells. Hooking it back to his powermaster, same problem. Decided to switch powermaster to his inner loop, on legacy. Everything ran perfectly. Now hooking up the powermaster that was connected to the inner loop Command control Legacy, to the outer loop running conventional, the Diesel now ran, sound, bells, and horn.
Should mention, the powermaster on the outside track,(conventional), I switched to his inner track. Works perfectly on all his engine's and switches.
So, same powermasters, same voltage outputs, etc. So, opinion, why would one powermaster work on the outer loop (conventional), but not the other when both are the same????
