I woke up a few days ago and wanted to test my trains out on the new curve i laid down and my 2 year old digitrax Zepher was blown! I called digitrax and they said thell fix it for about $50. Anyone else have similar problems? Im not to happy at all.
Colin
How do you know the Zephyr is bad? Maybe you have a short in your new track and the internal circuit breaker is turning it off to protect the electronics. Connect the Zephyr to a piece of flex track that is not connected to anything else and see what happens.
Had any lightning storms close by lately? I had a lightning strike hit a tree near my trailer one time. The bolt jumped from the tree to the trailer and was mostly bled off to ground. It made itself remembered by blowing the you know what out of the wall wart for my Bachmann EZ system. Fortunately, I keep a few spares around along with a couple of spare controllers. The wall wart is now plugged into a large surge protector along with everything else. The outside service has a whole house surge protector on it but that handles surges that come through the line, not the frame of the home.
It wasnt plugged in to anything at all. It was just sitting on my train-table. The problem is the screen isnt showing up
Colin
Did you try a reset?
David B
I hate to try the obvious, but does it have power? For sure?
Yup, i know its shot know because it has that " fried electronics smell " if ya know what im talking about
Time to send it back to Digitrax.
David B
Is anyone else confused? How does an electrical device become damaged by an electrical spike or anything else for that matter when “it wasn’t plugged into anything at all” and now smells of fried electronics? Did an electrical surge jump out of the closest outlet and into the Zephyr? Such things don’t just magically happen.
I think he’s confusing the smell of fried electronics with the smell that seems to come from many plastic items.
Anyone in your vicinity that may have used your equipment without your knowing or consent? Small child, thouchy-feely adult, monkey (j/k). Maybe someone not familiar with your stuff used it and messed it up.
I don’t see how that can happen.
Is it plugged in? Good battery (if it uses one)?
Rotor
Be sure that fried electronics smell is not coming from the power supply.
Be sure that the surge protector is not tripped.
Be sure the fried electronics smell is not coming from your engine.
Be sure that you attached the correct power supply.
Disconnect everything, grab your volt meter, start at the outlet and work your way forward.
You’re not alone. About a year ago it happened to me. Plugged in the power supply into the Zephyr and it started smoking. Sent it back to Digitrax and they fixed it, but mine was under warranty. Yours must have shorted out the instant you turned it on or just before you shut it off the last time.
Tom