I have a Lionel 6-28072 J3a Hudson with R/s I get signal sounds but no Railsounds. There are 4 boards. Mother board, receiver board, R/S power supply R/S 4.0 w/2 chips. Since I have no way to test them, should I replace the R/S power supply board ? Ay suggestions?
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Look for a switch "SS-RS". Move it to RS.
You might have checked this but is the Railsounds switch set to on under the tender? Page 8 of the manual.
Thanks for the suggestions. One of the first things I checked was the R/S & S/S switch in both positions in case it was wired wrong. I also noticed I can get whistle or bell in either position.
Did you try a feature reset? Might be worth a shot if you haven't. Maybe carefully reseat the boards.
The RS/SS selects Signal Sounds when the switch is closed. So it sounds like either you have a short in the wiring or something is amiss with the actual RailSounds board. Have you tried swapping another board in? You can try any diesel of steam RailSounds 4 or 5 board to see if the wiring is suspect or it's the board. If the new board still only gets Signal Sounds, you have a wiring issue. If the new board does full RailSounds, the original board is probably bad.
gunrunnerjohn R/S board was good. The problem was in the wiring. (ground wire) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction