Since you are all more experienced. I bought a used Railking Lo-V subway PS2 set. The engine moves. It lights up. but there is no sound . There is a BCR already in the unit. Any thoughts? Does a BCR go bad?
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Is the volume turned down?
Are you running conventional or command?
I am running conventional , 80 watt lionel transformer, fast track, and I've turned the volume up and down
Stop running it till you have a look around. Some PS2 speakers are known to flake apart, & cause a short. Sometimes it’s repairable, sometimes not. Top suspect if the speaker has gone to flakes is the audio amp.
Pat
Gotta' go with Pat here, you need to track that down before you keep running it.
Another useful piece of information is exactly what product number do you have?
Sorry for the delay, something called work got in between. The unit is the engine to the Railking 30-2447-1 set, it is car #: 5435. I looked at the speakers, they seem to be in good condition.
Looking at the speaker can't tell you if its bad as Pat said if the speaker winding shorts to ground the audio chip WILL blow!
Try another speaker new! if sounds returns you got lucky! don't forget the audio chip can be damaged from a derailment or track short even if the speaker was ok!
Alan
Another MTH myth..... I don't know how many bad speakers I have changed and audio amps have been fine. Can it happen, sure never say never. I have pulled speakers out where the magnet literally came off speaker and board was still fine.
Speakers go open and can be bad. Several types of Star speakers in 5V and some 3V had magnets that deteriorated and distorted sounds or reduced volume.
Or audio amps can go bad unrelated to speaker. 5V run at a limit; and 3V susceptible to AC spikes from track shorts and any pinched wires.
Occasionally 3V speakers of the BF-34 type have the speaker lead to the coil too close to speaker frame and can vibrate into the frame and short. I always check before using a new speaker.
I have only had one 3V speaker that shorted when whistle blown (I assume from vibration) and it was not a bad magnet. I assume defective coil.
Determine speaker ohms. 16 for 5V and 4 for 3V. You can meter the speaker lead, if open replace it. Or just replace it and see.
Rare occasion volume pot can be bad, but if DCS use it over rides the pot. I would do a conventional reset to see what happens. G
