I am stumped on my Docksider it is drawing so much power and going so slow. It was fine when I parked it a few weeks ago and as soon as I put it on the track last night it just would not get up to speed. Most times it would be flying off the table at 1/2 throttle. Now it is slow at full throttle with my ZW and the transformer is fine. Have any of you seen something like this before I take it apart AGAIN ????
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Kev
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Kev,
My No Pole Cntrl Docksider is in the shop now. It would just barely crawl with lots of power applied then take off like crazy then slow to a crawl again w/o touching the controls. My guess was either the board or the motor itself which the service guy said sounded right to him. I dropped it off earlier this week but haven't heard the test results as of yet.
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Doug, Mine just seems to crawl. I may go downstairs and give it a run now to get a better look. Let me know what they say, and Thanks!
If your smoke unit is turned ON, try turning it off and see if that helps. Could be that your smoke unit is fried. My Lionel Mikado Jr had similar symptoms when its smoke unit fried.
SantaFe and DougDG,
Smoke unit was off, I did like I said and ran it to see what it would do. It crawled around the track then stopped after maybe 3 min. Smoke coming out of the case. I took it apart and there are parts on the board that are blue from heat and the motor was so hot you could not touch it, Think now it is a POS. Very tired of throwing good money after bad Lionel stuff. Think I will focus on the good old stuff, Post War. I have had nothing but bad luck with anything they have made in China.
BTW SantaFe, The smoke unit has fried 3 times already. That is why I don't use it.
Did you lube it when the trouble started? The hot motor is a clue that something was binding up due to lack of lubrication.
servoguy, The first thing I thought was that it had picked up something off the table and bound it up but it is free. Seems to be a bad board at this point.
KRM BTW SantaFe, The smoke unit has fried 3 times already. That is why I don't use it.
I understand the frustration there. I spent $25 to have my smoke unit replaced in my Mikado Jr, and within a week it was fried again. I was very careful to keep fluid in it, so it wasn't operator error. Just cut the wires and left it alone.
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