lionel up u30c

[bigdogjeff]

I have a lionel up u30c engine and i put it on the track and when i started it up and i heard a pop. and the engine took off like bat out of hell. So I looked under the hood and there was magnet fragments all in the shell. What is it and how to fix please.

[TrainLarry]

   There are only 2 components in the locomotive that have magnets, and they are the speaker, and the motors. Either the speaker magnet has chipped, or a motor exploded. If a motor disintegrated, you would have more than magnet fragments inside the shell.

Larry

[phillyreading]

bigdogjeff

I have a lionel up u30c engine and i put it on the track and when i started it up and i heard a pop. and the engine took off like bat out of hell. So I looked under the hood and there was magnet fragments all in the shell. What is it and how to fix please.

Are you sure that it is magnet fragments and not some parts of electronic components that may have exploded? That pop and high speed takeoff sound more like an electronic melt-down than a speaker blowout. Look at the circuit board and you may see a small pin-sized hole or it is burnt in color, if so the circuit board died.

[bigdogjeff]

ok thanks for the reply guys i found out it was the odyssey magnet ring that the chip picks up so it runs at slow speed blew up. lionel stats that they have this problem with odyssey and the part is 3.00 bucks so no big problem at this point.