Smoke unit resistors

Got it fixed! Thanks

What was the problem with it?

Sounds like a shorted triac.

You were right John. I am so frustrated with the Electronics in this engine. I have taken out all the guts of the engine to replace with ERR stuff. The tooling is outstanding but my particular engine always kept having to be opened up and messed with at times to work properly. Could have gotten a lemon when I picked this one out to by. I contacted box car bill and he is going to install The stuff for me. Only bad thing is because of gutting electronics so hastily I will lose all sounds. Boards are to big for engine and have to be in the sloped back tender.no room for sound board now. Old boards were trashed thinking I would not need then.R2LC was bad anyway. I will get all sound boards in tender back. Will save for another engine upgrade. Will finally get cruise though and will be able to run it problem free for good. Wanted to keep it from being mantel piece. I can live with out sounds.speed control is a must have though. Btw bill is great to do business with and very resonance too!!

Ment to say bill is very reasonable on prices! Sorry I phone is hard to type on some days!

I finally turned off the speller thing on my iPhone. Too much erroneous interference.

Gosh, NEVER throw away boards, even ones that have problems!  Replacing the triac is pretty simple, and the sound board is the same as what comes with the ERR RailSounds Commander.  If you liked the old sounds, you could have just swapped that board in for the generic sounds that come with the RS Commander.

I just gutted the boards in the engine. I was Thinking I would install the ERR commander board in there.. Lucky for me I just started this and called box car bill when I did. Since I had all the boards laying still on my workbench bill told me to send it all in and he would see if he could repair it so *** to be able to do the install of cruiseM instead so I can keep my sounds. Wish I hadn't gotten in such a rush to gut everything. If bill can work miricales on this Basket case he truly is and will be a great American to me! I will keep you all posted as to When I get it back and what happens. I am hopping all goes well. I am sure as a installer he would like the free advertising.