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(I apologize if this has been covered before.)

 

After reading my thread regarding the testing I did on the ZW-L and Z4000 with an oscilloscope, one of my friends from this forum emailed me to find out if I had experienced the perplexing handle unmanned motion. He does not yet have a ZW-L, so he was curious about this phenomenon, which he had seen in the Lionel video on the ZW-L:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN5S7X6y9sM

 

In the video, at 6:06, the presenter (Mike Reagan?) releases the inside throttle, and at 6:08 the A-Handle, which he had set at the 13V mark, starts to move by itself. It continues to move until it reaches the 16V mark at 6:11, at which point Mike stops the handle and returns it to the 0V mark.

 

I have to admit, I missed it the first time I watched the video, but then he told me exactly where it happened, and lo and behold, there it was – Handle A moved by itself!

 

Any comments or explanations?

 

Thx!

 

Alex

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I believe that is the "ghost of Lionel Service job security" LOL To be honest that ZW-L used in the video had previously been disassembled multiple times in our endeavor to "understand" how it was assembled, worked, etc. we find it best to do that with items that belong to us! Hence the "ghost of JLC" being seen in the video. Mike

I not sure if anyone here remembers when Lionel was planing to make the Lionel ZW YARD BOSS? but one of the features was the handles could be controlled by the cab 1 remote Ghost Handle features.

 

 

Lionel LLC’s new ZW Yard Boss allows control
of all TrainMaster Command Control
locomotives from a single, fixed position.
Up to five switches and two engines can
be simultaneously controlled without readdressing.

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