Ok so i have my Broadway limited Paragon 2 Locomotive GE AC6000 and i was stupid enough to be working on the track while i was running a train on it. I placed a metal tool on both rails which made a spark, scared the s**t out of me, and stopped my precious Broadway CSX in its tracks (No pun intended). Now the loco lights up but it does not move or make sound. I have heard some simple fixes are to reset the loco using CV8 but i am not capable of doing so. The manual reset was a failed attempt as i could not locate the small "button" that is to be pushed down while the train is on the track and track power is restored. If anybody knows how to locate this so-called button your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
~ Michael
When you powered the rails, did you dial in speed? The light may come on, but until you enter speed on your throttle, the Paragon Series of locomotives stay silent. Once you get them running, they'll continue to make sounds until you next power down the layout. If you have dialled speed and it does nothing except put on a light, then you may have to reset...hopefully.
Have you removed the shell? When you find the decoder, with all the wires and soldered circuits and doodads, there will be an obvious pushable button, maybe coloured, on one of the doodads, a box shape.
Hi, Michael
I have had several occasions where my ParagonII engines will "go dead" after a short or sometimes after being idled for a long time.
See this thread for some insight, even though it is steam, same electronics: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/744/t/225199.aspx
DID your BLI engine come with a magnetic wand? Lately this is just a silver rod about an inch long with one end dyed red? These are usually the QSI decoders.
If it did, take the wand and your instruction book and follow the reset procedures there. If you have to open the shell, refer to this instruction to find the button http://www.broadway-limited.com/support/Paragon2%20Reset.pdf
Before you do all this, try TWO quick taps of F9 to see if that gets your engine out of it's sleep mode.
Hope this helps... let us know. Ed
To answer all of your quewstions i did try dialing in the speed which makes me think i do need the reset, My paragon 2 did not come with a "Magnetic wand" although i have one from my toolbox, and my controler has no keys such as f9. I am using a cheap bachman ez command station right now.
This brings me to my next question, how to remove the shell. I tried removing all of the visible screws on the underside but that only ended up taking off the segment with the speakers in them (Still attached by wires to the train) I also undid the couplers but do not see anything else that would let the shell be removed. the shell stayed on fairly tight. A small segment "opened" at the nose that i could stick my fingernail in to try and pry it open but the plastic rails would have been broken if the shell came off.
PS: Does it take everybody a little while for their posts to be approved?
~Thanks, Michael