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TMCC Loco with 'the blinkies"

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Posted by J. Daddy on Monday, February 2, 2009 11:07 AM

In case the you went through the check list and you still are having a problem, I did have the same issue and it turned out to be a bad connector joint from the headlight wire harness to the mother board.

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Posted by Roger Bielen on Sunday, February 1, 2009 8:57 AM

In addition to the reset check and clean the pick-ups and wheels.  It may be possible to add another antenna in the engine.  I've found it necessary to increase the antenna area on a couple of diesels.

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Posted by SoUniCalTrain on Sunday, February 1, 2009 2:42 AM

Greetings. I'm wondering if these blinkies are regular or irregular?  I think random flickering would indeed indicate poor reception, as folks have already posted above.  However, a regular stobe light kind of blinking (1 second on, 1 second off), tells me the loco may have other issues.  If this is the case and resetting the program code doesn't help, I'd suspect the R2LC board.

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Posted by chuck on Saturday, January 31, 2009 7:47 PM

If none of your other TMCC loco's behave this way, check the antenna on the ofending loco.  Blinking lights mean poor reception.

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Posted by dougdagrump on Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:44 PM

Sign - Welcome aboard.

Normally blinking headlights are the sign of a poor signal reception. Have you tried doing a "system reset" as oulined in the owners manual ? 

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TMCC Loco with 'the blinkies"
Posted by ThirdRailer on Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:05 PM

I have a Lionel Baby Trainmaster locomotive with TMCC that is almost new. The problem is that when I run it, the headlight and cab light both blink almost like a stobe light. I run both Lionel and MTH and none of my other locos do this. I use DCS with a Lionel Trainmaster command base to run my locomotives. Any ideas, cures, or recommendations? Thanks!

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