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MTH HO GS-4 Not Responding

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MTH HO GS-4 Not Responding
Posted by BRAMLEY BENTON on Saturday, July 11, 2020 11:41 PM

Picked up a new Proto 3 GS-4 with smoking whistle today. It ran just fine out of the box. However I took it off the tracks, once I placed it on the tracks again it started making this buzzing sound (coming from the locomotive chassis, not the smoke unit as it is much louder than the fan.)

Upon restarting my dcc system the locomotive now no longer responds to the F3 command after starting. It only buzzes now. 

Anyone have any fixes for this? Im not exactly looking forward to waiting for MTH service to reopen (to my knowledge they're currently closed due to corona)

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Posted by BigDaddy on Monday, July 13, 2020 4:40 PM

Welcome to the forum.  Your intial posts are delayed by moderation.

Can't help with a decoder reset.  I looked on their website and they don't give away much.  There was some discussion recently that the owner is going to close the business.

There are MTH fans, so hand in there, someone will come up with an answer.

Henry

COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

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Posted by rrinker on Monday, July 13, 2020 6:57 PM

 You didn't get a tender truck, or either the lead or trailing truck on the loco, spun around, did you? That will cause a dead short - which makes a buzzing or 'singing' noise with DCC.

                               --Randy

 


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.

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