Just bought an older MTH PS2 steam engine from an estate sale. The previous owner ran his trains a lot, and looked to have both Legacy and DCS setup, but no one in the family was that interested to know anything about the trains he had. His inventory was on paper with not that much info.
I want to see if it will take a charge, but I don't know what type of battery is in it. If he had put in a BCR, would it hurt the BCR to put it on a charger?
Thanks.
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I'll ask the obvious:
Is this tender for some reason a challenge to open up and take a look? Unless it's something with a unique design like a Triplex or a Shay (with intricate machinery part of the tender design), it should be pretty simple to pop the hood to see what's in there.
Why guess?
-Dave
I don't believe that charging the BCR would hurt. I only have a couple of the 3 volt style. I think I did that before?
I try and disconnect and/or remove the charging circuit jack when I put one in. GGG made me some that plug straight into the boards. So on those, nothing happens.
On any used engine I get, I try to open it up and do maintenance stuff anyways.
Joe, thanks for the guidance.
The seller said I could return it if it was defective, so I did not want to open it up until I knew I wanted to keep the engine. Anyway, I opened it up and it had the MTH 5v battery. I'll try charging it and replace if bad.
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