Question about err

Are you sticking the same 5V PS/2 board into it each time?  If so, consider one of the better choices, any of the later DCS boards.

ERR will end up costing more to get full featured running, you have to add smoke control and a chuff switch in addition to the ERR Cruise Commander and the ERR RailSounds Commander.  I add the extra features using my Chuff-Generator and Super-Chuffer II, but as you can see, that does run up the cost.

While it can be installed in an MTH engine it presents many more challenges than installing it in Lionel or other TMCC engine. Pretty much everything except the motor and smoke unit has to be removed including the couplers. The smoke unit needs to be modified to work. The biggest change is creating an antenna. It will easier if you put everything in the tender as making an antenna in the engine would be difficult.

You can see whats involved by going to electricrr.com and downloading the manuals for the Cruise Commander and Railsounds board.

Pete

Thanks everyone the only reason I wanted to switch to err was because of the motherboard blowing up for a third time I just wanted this to stop. I might just have someone do this installation for me.

Understanding the specific fault and why it is occurring might solve what is going on.  G

I think I'm just gonna spend extra to get err cruize railsounds and smoke do you know anyone who can do that

@GGG posted:

Understanding the specific fault and why it is occurring might solve what is going on.  G

+1

Something is going wrong for the board to keep blowing up. It's either a locomotive problem or a layout problem (i.e. poor circuit protection like a Postwar ZW with no external modern breakers). Fix that problem and the board will stop failing.

@GGG posted:

Understanding the specific fault and why it is occurring might solve what is going on.  G

@Lou1985 posted:

+1

Something is going wrong for the board to keep blowing up. It's either a locomotive problem or a layout problem (i.e. poor circuit protection like a Postwar ZW with no external modern breakers). Fix that problem and the board will stop failing.

+2 ….spend all that money on an ERR upgrade, and as Lou and George mentioned, if you have an underlying problem, poof goes the X-pensive ERR products …..self inflicted vaporization is not covered under anybody’s warranty,….

Pat

I found the problem there were stripped wores from when I have bought this and they touched the frame grounding it out and burning up the board. I'm just gonna do err because I run tmcc anyways. Thanks for all the help