TMCC Question

Do you have a second TMCC engine to try?

With 18V to the track and the engine responding with the horn, bell and couplers it would seem that TMCC is working.  If TMCC is not working, usually when you apply 18V to the track the engine will wake up in conventional mode and take off.  You might try cycling forward/neutral/reverse conventionally to see if anything happens.  No movement with conventional F/N/R and your engine does realize TMCC is present.  

I would also double check any tether connections and options switches.  Maybe a direction lock-out switch is jamming you up?  Usually when I have an issue I cycle all switches just to be sure they are seated the way they are suppose to be.  Just a thought.  Good luck.

Tony

Did you make sure the run/program switch was moved back to run after you program the ID?

There was a similar thread a day or so ago... The fix was new batteries in the cab-1..

Thanks to all that replied, I replaced batteries and I removed a switch that I thought might be the problem, and confirmed that the engine was in run mode. I made a little headway today, as I am at least back to where I started. I can now get the engine to start up through the CAB-1,  I can get the front and back couplers to work through the CAB-1 and also the horn and bell. I can get the head lights to come on, although they are not on solid, there is a flicker, and can get the engine to move now maybe a foot before it stops moving. The engine idle increases and decreases. I try going in reverse, the same thing happens. Not that it should matter, but the track is a large loop, 16 foot by 20 foot by 16 foot by 20 foot. So it's my longest loop. The fact that I can get it to move at least a foot tends to lead me to think maybe I have a track cleaning issue? Any other ideas? I am going to try another engine, but I'm tentative to fool around with another until I get the first one to work. Any other thoughts?

Jim

If you put your hand over the engine does the headlight stop flickering?  

If so a couple of questions.  Is the power supply for the base the original one with 3 prongs?

If so is it plugged into a properly grounded 3 prong outlet?  Bypass any power strips and plug it directly into the properly grounded outlet. 

Hi,

The power supply that came with the CAB-1 Control only has two prongs, No third prong.

As far as putting my hand over the engine, I just tried and now I am back to where I was before. The engine will not come on. You thinking this is a grounding issue?

The proper TMCC power supply should have 3 prongs without exception. The signal uses the house ground for part of the signal propagation.

Here is the link for the proper power supply. 

Page 5 of this manual tells the story. 

Indycar82 posted:

The power supply that came with the CAB-1 Control only has two prongs, No third prong.

You were scammed, that's the wrong power supply.

A quick photo of the other side of Martye's  info.