Yeah - I'm making a point.
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It was the pinched wire that made your engine go bad. So it would not have mattered which power supply you were running. The fact that you have a Z4000 and don't use it on your layout but on a test track is beyond me. Even if you had a newer ZW it still would have happened. So your not really making a point about anything.
I've read the whole post and still don't understand why you won't get it fixed. It must be nice to have money to just throw away. If you buy a new car and something goes wrong with it under waranty do you just park it in the garage?
I've read the whole post and still don't understand why you won't get it fixed.
LOL, that one is a baffler, especially if its under warranty.
Originally Posted by Ralph4014:
It was the pinched wire that made your engine go bad. So it would not have mattered which power supply you were running. The fact that you have a Z4000 and don't use it on your layout but on a test track is beyond me. Even if you had a newer ZW it still would have happened. So your not really making a point about anything.
I've read the whole post and still don't understand why you won't get it fixed. It must be nice to have money to just throw away. If you buy a new car and something goes wrong with it under waranty do you just park it in the garage?
You've made my point for me: "So it would not have mattered which power supply you were running." Exactly. As far as I am concerned, any 3-rail model locomotive made by any vendor ought to run in conventional mode with any new or traditional power supply. Now, I think it very likely that testing it with the Z4000 did, as I replied to Nicole, make the situation worse once the failure had occured.
My Z4000 is not hooked up to a special test track. I moved the loco, when it first gave trouble, from a loop powered by a CW80 to one powered by a Z4000 so I could use the 4000's voltage and amp meters to diagnose problems. The Z4000 powers by biggest loops where I run my bigger, power hungry trains.
It looks like the same Marx transformer I use to permanently power one of my tracks.
