Train America Turbo smoke unit?

[laz 57]

Has anyone used the turbo smoke unit by train america on 3 rail Lionel steam engines?
I'm thinking of putting it in my Lionel Lionmaster Big Boy #38075?
Will it work in here and is it very hard to hook up?
Laz 57

[wrmcclellan]

Laz,

I am not able to help you directly on this.

The TAS folks are very helpful. Call or e-mail them and I feel you can trust their answers.

They recently helped me with a dead sound board on a Lionel UP SD40.

Regards,
Roy

[ChiefEagles]

Yes, I want to see if I can use them to "fire up" some old MPC UBoats.

[Anonymous]

Laz,

Don't tear out that smoke unit in your bigboy! Its a fine unit! I have a TAS Turbo Smoke unit here if you like.

Chris

[laz 57]

LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD,
Are you saying to leave that unit in ? Will that TAS fit im a Lionel Atlantic I have? It is a Southern Pacific? What do you want for it? What will it fit? Do these units smoke good? Looking for more smoke.
Laz 57

[ChiefEagles]

Laz, he told me in an email, that they have to work with a sound board. [?] Guess we will have to call them and see if they have one that does not.

[Anonymous]

These units smoke, GREAT. The thing is, they are larger then a normal Lionel smoke unit. After all, its your trains, do as you please. If you like shoot me a emial I can give you the size.

If it is a TMCC/RS loco, You should be fine.

Chief, I think I have a generic unit laying here, [unused[I'll let you have it if I can find it.

[laz 57]

Thanks Guys on the reply. Maybe I give them a call or email them and see what's up? CHIEF,I'll ask about your older stuff too, let you know what they say.
Laz 57

[ChiefEagles]

Thanks yuz giz [have to speak Yankee to those two [;)]]

[Anonymous]

A trick I learned on the TA smoke unit to get it to smoke just as great as MTH is this.
Take out the 4 screws that hold the top on and look at the element. You will see a small yellow piece soldered in parallel with the element. This is the thermister that regulates the how hot it can get in there before it shuts the unit down.
Move the thermister so it is about 1/8 of an inch away from the element instead of laying on the element.
You still get the overheat protection but it lets it get just the right amount of heat in there to really smoke up a storm. Try it a little closer if you do not want allot of smoke.
My units are all run by the eob so I do not know how they hook it up for puffing, but for steady smoke I would think you would go directly to the rails.
I has a small chip on the unit that controls it, but I would ask before I just hooked it up.
Dave.
There is also supposed to be a new type of chuffing system comeing out from TA as MTH put the use of microproser controlled chuffing on their never ending patent list.
I have been told it will work better than the the existing one.
Dave Roxin.