Train America Studios Smoke

Can anyone help Bill?

You might try to e-mail Mike Reagan with your question. This obviously is not a Lionel issue, but he had a little influence on TAS products and I am sure he could answer to your question or get you to someone who could. He is a genuinely nice guy and if he was aware of your issue, my guess is he would be glad to help.

Maybe this will help.  Here's the TAS TurboSmoke Installation instructions.

John

Thanks for posting that. Do you happen to know what diode is used for the fix to allow puff-n-chuff with a chuff switch?

I'm pretty sure the diode will be very non-critical, try a 1N4003.

Thanks. I figured it probably would be non-critical, but since I don't know much about diodes and you do, it was worth asking. 

Hey I thought I would update everyone.  I got things back together and the smoke unit motor comes on and off but no smoke.  The resistor is good. Alco I cannot get the program to change engine id.  I could use some help. Thanks bill

If you can't change the TMCC ID, I'd probably try to fix that first.  Unless something has broken, that should just be the RUN/PGM switch or the wiring.

What TMCC package is in that locomotive?  How did you wire the smoke unit in?

I remove the shell of another atlas a gp 60 and traced each wire. I have checked the program run switch. only two of the posts are used. is it possible to by pass the switch?

The switch closed is program mode.  Here's the pinout of the R2LC, you can trace the connections from the switch up to the board, one should be chassis common, the other should run to pin #22 on the R2LC. With the switch closed, you should read continuity between chassis ground and pin #22 on the R2LC.

If that isn't the problem, the R2LC may have a problem.

I checked for continuity between pin 22 an the plug. it is good. I checked for a good ground on the other side of the plug on the board. it to was good. Could the r2lc be bad?

Well, if the switch is grounding pin 22 on the R2LC and you can't set the TMCC ID at that point, that would be my top suspect. 

When you put it into program mode and power it up on the track, you get no indication when you press ENG, ##, and SET?  Either a horn blast or at least the headlight blinking should occur.

no there is nothing.

First step would be to swap out the R2LC and see if that changes, it's an easy test.

Let me know if you need a TAS board.

If the direct connection programmed properly, one of the wires isn't going to the proper place.    Probably the easiest thing is to just jumper the switch directly if that's all the problem is.