VL BB Tender Issues

You can start by cleaning the track,the tender pick up rollers and wheels.Nick

sinclair

 

Try Cleaning the Tracks and the Ground wheels on the tender too. 

 

Please let us know how you make out then.

 

Good Luck,

 

John

Take that straight section out and reinstall it. FT will sometimes make poor connections when they be together for a while.

I thought dirty track was to blame, but crossed it off since it never did it when I pushed it by hand.  But will a couple of you saying to clean, guess I need to clean.

 

As for the straight, this was the 1st time it happened there, up to the time I took the video, it happened in the middle of the curve, but that track has been up there a while.  guess it's also time to clean the junk off of the table and move the track around for something different.

Sinclair, gun runner John told me to use a camera view finder aim at infrared on locomotive if a purple glow engine not the issue.
That means a tender issue is possible so if it returns try it I found I had to actually take a picture of infrared in a darkened room to see it maybe your younger eyes can see it in view finder.

I did remember that from the post with your issues, and I tried it, perhaps too much light in the room, I couldn't really tell if it was just light reflecting off of the round sensors or if it was the IR signal.  I know they are talking mostly as when in range the locomotive controls the tender, for the most part.  I'll try again to see tonight after the boys are in bed.

sinclair, take a picture of it the infrared will show up that is only way I could see it!
My cell says plug in not compatiable so really don't know what your issue is.

You don't have the weight off the BB on the tracks when you were pushing the tender by hand.

sinclair,  thats just about what my BB did on 072 curve but mine was silent after that.

 

only difference is yours didn't seem to make a popping sound from tender same time as lights and sound went off.

 

did you ever see if locomotive infrared was glowing?

 

also didn't you already send this BB back to lionel?

Whelp, I cleaned the track after getting some isopropyl alcohol from the store this morning, and ran it for a while, and no issues.  I'll continue to watch it this weekend and see if it's solved for no.  If it was dirty track, this is one picky locomotive, all my other TMCC and Legacy haven't seemed to care how dirty the track is.

 

And yes, it's been to Lionel already for the coal load.

I haven't seen any sensitivity to dirty track with my VL-BB, so I can't imagine that's the primary issue.