My club president is having trouble with a BLI M1A. After a short, the horn goes beep…beep…beep…forever. The button won’t turn it off. The reset CV won’t turn it off.
Ideas?
A hard reset? I think there is a button in the tender but have to dive into my own M1a’s manuals to find it.
If that does not do it, then maybe the BLI folks in florida can do something with the engine.
In the M1, the hard reset is pulling the decoder out and plugging it back in.
Is there a trick to getting into the tender?
Look under the water fill hatches on the tender, one side has the volume control and the other should be the reset switch. Flick the switch, apply power, you should get the 3 whistle blasts, kill power and return the switch to original position. Rember you are now on CH 3 that should get it…if you really need to; the tender shell is a friction fit and pops staight off.
There is what is called a “jumper” under the tender…a little black tower, squared in profile from directly above it, and it seems to have a wire “staple” on the top, embedded. Pull the black tower up, off its seat, apply power to the loco, shut off the power, reposition the jumper, and then get power on the track once more. The loco may or may not hoot three times, but it will almost certainly begin to act once you dial in and activate address 03.
Well. I hope all of that holds water in the box he he he.
Check the jumper position. I don;t think it was the M1, but a different model, came with the jumper in the reset position, meaning every time it was taken off the tracks or the track power was shut off - it reset itself. But the same could have happened with the M1.
–Randy