OK ok, I am back with more questions, I purchased one of these things, and put in a tsunami sound chip into the tender. Now, all this sounds great not problems with that, BUT, what I have noticed, and I am sure this is not due to my installation of the sound card. is that the engine and/or tender lose contacts freq. SO, i tested the tender by itself and it needs a LOT of pressure for it to make proper contact to the rails. The tender and the engine together “appear” to work fine until I go over a turnout or unlevel track (when i say unlevel, i mean something that cannot even be measured by most fine tools). SO, what are my options, LHS? open the engine part up (i dread this. Or, return it : I would like to know what my options are regarding this since i installed the sound decoder and drilled little holes on the coal part of the tender.
I’m not sure what you mean by “contact”. Do you mean electrical or do you mean the wheels aren’t making proper contact. I tend to think wheel contact. If so, you may have the trucks mounted too tight or when you mounted the sound unit the floor was warped somehow or the tender body is’nt properly reinstalled on the floor. Or maybe the pickup wires aren’t long enough. Hope this helps. Ken
yes, I mean wheel contact, wheel contact on both the engine and the tender are horrible
Bachmann has a forum which might be useful,www.bachmanntrains.com Go to the United States page,the forum is at “ask the Bachmann”
My 2-10-2 has been problematic in several regards, however since taking the top off and dropping in 2.5 ounces ahead of the motor, it has settled down. Did you remove the circuit board ouit of the tender. If not do so as this was causing the engine to stall infrequently and had something to do with the capacitors.
Instead of more weight in te tender you might have to put more spring into your wheel pick ups.
Fergie