I have several MTH locomotives with garbled or no sound. They have BCR's installed. I'm looking for repair service recommendations. I assume they will need new sound boards. What is the approximate cost of such a repair?
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It could be the speakers. What engine do you have? Age? PS?, etc.
Don,
They are PS2 engines, steam & diesel. I replaced the speaker in one & it was still garbled & weak.
Got it. Maybe gunrunner john will pipe in.
I think @gunrunnerjohn has avoided picking up further questions when the original poster fails to list product numbers in his question. PS2 locomotives have either 5-volt or 3-volt boards. The 5-volt versions are problematic. MTH’S stock number would make it clear from the start, speeding up the process of diagnosing the problem.
So to all OGR Forum members, many of us again say list the exact product numbers if you want help.
while it is true ps2 5 volt boards are more problematic, ps 2 3 volt boards have had bad speakers causing low or no volume or amps that have failed after track shorts or derailments which cause track shorts! mth ps 2 3 volt boards generally only have problems with the amp failing for the same reason track shorts as described above! ps2 5 volt boards the amps are also still available if needed. let me know if you need a engine board repaired! the price of repair is determined by what parts have failed. drop me an email if you need to know more! if your amps are blown you only have to replace the amps not the entire board as long as the reset of the ps 2 board is ok
Alan
if you have ps 2 3volt the battery will be 2.4 volt and if ps 2 boards are 5 volt it will have 8.4 volt battery in engine involved ! please not if your speakers in these engines have metal flaking on the magnetic it best you replace your speakers as if winding shorts to frame it will destroy your board possibly at Minimum it will destroy your amp!
Alan
Don. Jim, Alan,
Thank you for the advice & information. I will pull out the troubled locomotives & review the problems & post product numbers. Again thanks for help. I will continue this thread.
