This is A friend's 6-11262 Erie and it will smoke on my layout but not on his. He uses a cab1 and so do i. I also have base3. It smokes on my layout with the cab1 and the base / cab 3. I have taken my cab 1 to his house and neither cab1 will get smoke. Voltage on his track is 17 volts. Any theories or suggestions?
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Makes no sense. If the switch for smoke is on, and you activated smoke with CAB1 and it smokes. Placing it on his layout it should smoke without any use of his cab1 other than starting up the engine. Sure his track voltage is ok? G
@GGG posted:Makes no sense. If the switch for smoke is on, and you activated smoke with CAB1 and it smokes. Placing it on his layout it should smoke without any use of his cab1 other than starting up the engine. Sure his track voltage is ok? G
Slow response- out of town for a few days.
Makes no sense- Agreed! The switch is on and the track was at 17VAC.
we are going to bring the locomotive to my house again next week for a final try to figure this out. The one thing that has been consistent at my friend's house when no smoke happens is his TMCC base. Is there a chance that a base can be selective in what it responds to - like ignoring a smoke command?
Maybe this needs to be an eco- sensitive steam locomotive and run on nuclear power in the future?
Change the batteries in the remote. It's a known issue that the command transmission gets flaky when the batteries are weak, a common complaint is some key presses are not recognized.
To close the loop on this one.... my friend has this smoking now. What he told me was that he had to hold the smoke increase button for several seconds on the CAB1 and voila, smoking started. It turns out that the smoke button on the CAB 1 must have a slow response for ON / increase?
I don't use a CAB 1 very often and this was a new one to me- thanks to all for the input.
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