From what you are indicating this is what is used to repair Legacy equipment. If you think that might cure my problem I would be willing to give it a try.
Lionel stated I could send them the sound module for a check and if it is bad they would replace it for a fee of course.
This loco has a very short run time on it. It is kind of disappointing to have trouble so soon. I have some 60+ year old trains that have had no trouble ever.
Thanks, Dave
The 6-37125 Module does not seem to be currently available. It should be around the end of April.
This loco has a very short run time on it. It is kind of disappointing to have trouble so soon. I have some 60+ year old trains that have had no trouble ever.
Thanks, Dave
Unfortunately the electronics in todays modern locos are not bullet proof compared to the mechanical locos of years past. The more complicated the electronics are, the more likely that the loco will eventually find its way to a service center.
These modules seem to be a backup for whatever settings you have for each individual loco.
I purchased some and they simply backup what you already have. How are these considered service modules.
I had a SD70M2 NS that had flakey sounds only days after buying it. I put up with it doing that until the fan on the smoke unit went out. I didn’t really want to ship it to Lionel or drag it into my LHS for a few weeks, so I took the 7 screws out of the bottom and realized that too much smoke fluid or using MTH’s much thinner fluid might have leaked thru Lionel’s smoke pot and got into the fan unit.
Anyway…My LHS [ New York Central Toys & Train, Mishawaka IN] was nice enough to order the parts for me at no charge and I installed a new smoke unit…now to the part that may help you…
When I took it apart, I found that the radio and sounds modules were barely plugged in. I simply unplugged them, cleaned them with tuner cleaner [rubbing alcohol works too] and plugged them back in. They have worked great since then.
I hope you have similar good fortune!
They are service modules for YOUR system, nothing more. In the future you will most likely have to download any system updates to these service modules, then update your system from there. What I would like to know is how are these different from standard USB ports/flashdrives…
It has been a while but I would like to tell what happened when I sent the loco back to Lionel.
They said it was a burnt wire???
Now I was in electronics service for over 30 years and I rarely ran into burnt wires on low current devices.
Bad connections, yes many many times, especially on printed circuit boards. The way this one acted a bad connection could well have been the trouble.
They were pretty quick getting it back to me as they only had it about a week. I was charged for labor only, 60.00.