PS2 engine running full smoke at idle?

With all MTH PS2 and PS3 enignes, it is normal for the smoke unit to be constant when in neutral and is is normal to puff in sync with the chuff sounds

Todd Pytel posted:

 the smoke unit fan was running really loud with the engine idling. It's smoking at max and doesn't seem to let up. This isn't normal, right?

I don't remember the engine doing this before.

The engine shouldn't be smoking forever at idle, right? Any other suggestions?

I think the fact that the motor is loud, is what now drew more attention to it. The motor might be going bad? 

It smokes at idle as long as it's turned on. The wick does change some smoke volume as it goes thru it's life. If it was partially blocking the flow it may have lessoned that as it burned in. Maybe you had the smoke volume set differently on the DCS remote and it got changed by someone?

Later diesel models had smoke motors wired differently so that the smoke volume increased as the diesel motor revs went up. So they smoke less at idle.

That's the only change I'm aware of myself. I don't have any tinplate and I'm not aware of this method of wiring for it. Even if it was, it wouldn't change itself with use!

Bruk posted:

With all MTH PS2 and PS3 enignes, it is normal for the smoke unit to be constant when in neutral and is is normal to puff in sync with the chuff sounds

almost all except diesels

The smoke motor should be running less than full speed, and the electronics does reduce the heater power, so you should get a lower quantity of smoke, but still plenty at idle.