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Resetting tripped powermaster.

KF Keith FrankOGR Forum Member

I'm resurrecting my Lionel trains from 2005. I'm running 8 loops totally separate. The first four are on a ZW with 4 / 180 V power bricks. The second four are on an older ZW with four powermasters. Originally I uses a TMCC command base for those four loops.I am now using a base 3 to control everthing.Do I need to hook up the command base for the second four loops or not. I started to run an engine on that first powermaster loop and I had a derailment and now the powermaster is blinking and I don't know how to reset it. 

In a nutshell here are my questions.

1-Can I operate this layout the way I described it with a Base 3 and no TMCC command base?

2 - How do I reset the tripped breaker on the powermaster? 

  Thanks for the help

                    Keith

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VB Vernon BarryOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Keith Frank posted:


In a nutshell here are my questions.

1-Can I operate this layout the way I described it with a Base 3 and no TMCC command base? BASE3 is your command base!!!

2 - How do I reset the tripped breaker on the powermaster? What version of powermasters?This matters hugely because if the earlier TMCC powermaster it does not work the same as a Legacy powermaster.

In a nutshell, the older TMCC powermaster ONLY received the 27MHZ radio signal directly from the remote- the base had NOTHING to do with powermaster control or operation.
Only the new Legacy powermasters (blue housing) can receive the TMCC/legacy signal from a base (example Base3) and directly use it.
Edit- mistake, I have not used a powermaster bridge and was just reading the manual. It appears to get the command data from the serial port and a cable to a base. For Base3 that would require an LCS Ser2 module, a PDI cable, and then yet another serial cable to connect between the SER2 and the powermaster bridge.
There is one possible solution- a powermaster bridge- it takes the TMCC command data signal from the base, and retransmits a 27MHZ signal to then talk to older TMCCC powermasters.
https://www.lionelsupport.com/...Master-Bridge_624280
Last edited by Vernon Barry
VB Vernon BarryOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

And, here lies the manual for the TMCC powermaster version https://www.lionelsupport.com/...ents/71-2867-250.pdf

Again, if you are using oldschool original black TMCC powermasters- the problem is getting them the command signal. In other words- in order for it to get the BOOST command above in the instructions- that was directly sent by the original grey CAB1 remote and natively cannot be sent by BASE3.

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