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So, I just bought a Z-1000 so I could run my MTH trains. Had an old ZW that ran the trains fine but I wanted to access some of the features that the ZW couldn’t provide. I ran all the trains on the ZW the night before I bought the Z1K, all ran fine. Now with the Z1K none of the locos will run. I have 2 PS1 locos with BRC’s and a PS2 with the different MTH batter in it. I’ll get full power all lights and sounds come on but no directional control, nor bell or whistle. But the thing is, I won’t throttle it up, it’ll be in the off position when all this is happening. Please anybody know anything on this? I’ve searched the forums but couldn’t find anything on this.

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there is probably nothing wrong with your z1000 it was not designed to run ps 1 engines those boards only work with certain transformers, I'd be willing to bet it will run old post war engines no problem! if you had a z4000 mth transformer your engines would take right off. the ps1 like pure sign wave but the z 1000 but you would not have  a pure sign wave output  ! an older zw would run those trains but you would not have the fast circuit breaker protection and would easily damage your electronics.

Alan 

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