MTHTrains Premier SD50 Diesel Engine, Operator'S Manual

Page 1: ...ealTrax or ScaleTrax or traditional tubular track It is also compatible with most standard AC transformers See page 44 45 for a complete list of compatible transformers power packs and wiring instructions PLEASE READ BEFORE USE AND SAVE Premier SD50 Diesel Engine OPERATOR S MANUAL Freight Yard Sound 3 ...

Page 2: ...enance 33 Lubricating and Greasing Instructions 33 Cleaning The Wheels Tires and Track 34 Traction Tire Replacement Instructions 34 Headlight Replacement Instructions 35 Troubleshooting Proto Sound 3 0 Problems 36 Transformer Compatibility and Wiring Chart 44 DC Power Supply Chart 45 Additional Features Accessible Of DCS Remote Control System 46 Service Warranty Information 47 Limited One Year War...

Page 3: ...acement parts and replacement instructions from the M T H Parts Department Lubrication You should lubricate the engine to prevent it from squeaking Use light household oil and follow the lubrication points marked L in Fig 1 Do not over oil Use only a drop on each pivot point Premier SD50 Diesel Engine 3 Priming the Smoke Unit When preparing to run this engine add 15 20 drops of smoke fluid through...

Page 4: ...ion Your locomotive can be configured to operate on 2 Rail or 3 Rail track From the factory the locomotive is configured to operate on 3 Rail Track To configure the locomotive for 2 Rail track operation please do the following 1 Remove the center rail pickup roller assemblies 2 Change the power input from 3 Rail to 2 Rail as seen in the figure below Figure 4 3 Rail Pickups 3 rail 2 rail switch Fig...

Page 5: ...e engine will play its start up sounds and all the lights will come back on simultaneously Smoke too if you have it turned on The capacitors hold enough charge to play the full shut down sounds Also the capacitors allow you to operate your engine in conventional mode just like you would any other conventionally controlled engine Finally because there are no batteries you will notice there is no ex...

Page 6: ...gines NOTE Requires a TIU w version 4 20 or later firmware and requires Consumer Loader version 2 30 or later LED Lighting Gone are the incandescent bulbs Your new PS3 0 equipped engine has LED lighting MTH uses various colored LEDs to simulate the correct lighting on your engines from the warm yellow orange colored light coming out of an old lantern on your favorite steam engine to the high inten...

Page 7: ...e forward and speed will increase as the throttle is advanced If there is another interruption in track power the sequence will change to the neutral position again The engine will remain in the neutral state until there is another interruption in track power The next interruption in track power will move the sequence to the reverse state The engine will now move in the reverse direction If the po...

Page 8: ...ease the Bell button To turn the bell off press and release the Bell button again The bell will continue to ring from the time you turn it on until you press and release the button again to turn it off Horn Whistle To sound the whistle firmly press the Horn Whistle button The whistle will sound for as long as you continue to depress the button It will stop when you release the button Direction You...

Page 9: ...oupler Speed Control On Off Lock into a Direction Ditch Lights On Off Reset to Factory Defaults 1 Bell 1 Horn Whistles 1 Bell 2 Horn Whistles 1 Bell 3 Horn Whistles 1 Bell 4 Horn Whistles 1 Horn Whistle 2 Bells from Neutral only 1 Horn Whistle 3 Bells 1 Horn Whistle 4 Bells 1 Horn Whistle 5 Bells from Neutral only Manual Volume Control To adjust the volume of all sounds made by this engine turn th...

Page 10: ...e unit is temporarily disabled so that the train will not move as you use the Direction button to trigger the sounds Proto Sound 3 0 has disabled operator control over the Horn and Bell buttons until the full PFA sequence is complete After waiting about 30 seconds for that sequence to run press the Direction button again to trigger the second sequence of PFA After about 30 seconds press the Direct...

Page 11: ...ear Coupler Horn Bell Horn Horn Fire Front Coupler Horn Horn Bell Premier SD50 Diesel Engine 11 Tips on Using PFA You can terminate PFA at any time by turning off power to the track for 15 seconds You do not have to be in Forward to use PFA At the conclusion of the full sequence the train will pull away from the station or yard in whatever direction you were going when you activated the feature Yo...

Page 12: ...to return it to the other condition You will want to do this during the initial neutral upon start up if you ever couple this engine to another engine that is not equipped with speed control to avoid damaging the motors in either engine Each time you shut down the engine completely it will automatically turn speed control on Speed Control Horn Place Engine into Neutral Bell Bell Speed Control Two ...

Page 13: ...he change Reset Two Horn Blasts indicates change is made Repeat to Return to Normal Condition Horn Place Engine in Neutral Bell Bell Bell Bell Bell Ditch Lights On Off Horn Place Engine in Neutral Bell Bell Bell Bell NOTE The Ditch Lights follow Rule 17 lighting That means when your engine is stopped the ditch lights will go off Once you start moving again in forward when the headlight goes from d...

Page 14: ...Only the diesel engine sounds smoke squealing brakes and idle sounds will function Operation of your MTH Proto Sound 3 0 engine in conventional DC is very similar to operating a conventional AC engine As you increase track voltage engine speed increases As the track voltage is decreased engine speed is decreased When track voltage polarity is reversed using the polarity or direction switch on the ...

Page 15: ...s upon whether it s steam diesel or electric and whether it has smoke or not Please refer to the table of Default CV Values for your particular engine s F Functions A note about enabling disabling F Functions in DCC Depending upon the DCC system you have you may need to toggle a particular F Function on then off to actually get it to enable Some DCC systems do this for you automatically and others...

Page 16: ...n It is recommended to do it this way rather than bring the engine to a stop with the throttle since PFA allows automatic departure movement of the engine after the last F4 toggle You ll hear the engine sounds switch from the cab to the station with all the ambient station sounds you d hear in the real thing 3 Press the F4 button twice toggle F4 on then off again to advance the sequence You ll hea...

Page 17: ...just like a real engine you can trigger the Grade Crossing Signal on your engine This is two long one short one long whistle horn blast F11 Grade Crossing Signal Pressing F11 twice toggling on then off will sound your Crossing Signal Engine Sounds F25 Engine Sounds You can turn the Engine Sounds On Off by pressing the F25 button Pressing it once enabling F25 will cause the Engine Sounds to shut of...

Page 18: ...9 will rev the diesel engine to the second notch and so forth You can rev the engine up 7 notches from idle This is useful if you wish to simulate a heavy load behind the train and want to rev the diesel engine up F20 Rev Down Pressing F20 twice will decrease the diesel engine s rev level by one notch Two more presses of F20 will rev the diesel engine down one more notch and so forth You can rev t...

Page 19: ...F26 will disable the Brake Sounds for your engine The Brake Sounds occur when you reduce the speed of your engine rapidly To enable the Brake Sounds press the F26 button disable F26 Brake Sounds are On by default F27 Cab Chatter Cab Chatter occurs when the engine is sitting at idle There are various times when the crew will talk to each other when the engine is sitting at idle Pressing the F27 but...

Page 20: ...ignal F10 Reverse Signal F11 Grade Crossing F12 Smoke On Off F13 Smoke Volume F14 Idle Sequence 3 F15 Idle Sequence 2 F16 Idle Sequence 1 F17 Extended Start Up F18 Extended Shut Down F19 Rev Up F20 Rev Down F21 One Shot Doppler F22 Coupler Slack F23 Coupler Close F24 Single Horn Blast F25 Engine Sounds F26 Brake Sounds On Off F27 Cab Chatter On Off F28 Feature Reset Refer to pages 24 26 for CV Dat...

Page 21: ... programmed with both a long and short DCC address The default Short address is always 3 The default Long address will be 3333 To change your engine s Short Address using PoM 1 Call up the engine s current address on your DCC handheld 2 Enter Programming on the Main on your DCC handheld 3 Enter the new address you want Remember you can only use address 1 127 for Short Addressing 4 Once you hit Ent...

Page 22: ... engines memory Reapplying power in less than 5 seconds may result in losing the setting changes If all else fails and you aren t sure of something never fear You can always get your engine back to a known state by either performing a Feature or Factory Reset There are a couple of ways to reset your MTH PS3 0 equipped engine Factory Resets Clears everything takes engine to just like it was when yo...

Page 23: ...ging the engine s address to 55 you are just telling the DCC system to start talking to engine address 55 You will want to make sure that no other MTH engines are on the rails or any other manufacturer s engines with an address of 55 are on the rails MTH engines will listen for commands coming to engine address 55 when the 55 55 55 reset is enabled even though they are not programmed as address 55...

Page 24: ...gine in a consist CV23 Consist Acceleration Rate CV24 Consist Deceleration Adjustment CV25 Speed Table Select CV29 Decoder Configuration CV49 Short Address controllers that prohibit PoM CV50 Extended Addr High Byte controllers that prohibit PoM CV51 Extended Addr Low Byte controllers that prohibit PoM CV52 MTH PWM Mode Configuration CV53 MTH Acceleration 1 8 sMPH s For example a Value of 8 written...

Page 25: ... 27 Alternate Speed Curve Step 28 Reverse Trim User ID 1 User ID 2 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 Function Bell High Byte Function Bell Low Byte Horn High Byte Horn Low Byte Start Up Shut Down High Byte Star...

Page 26: ...HTS Lights Marker Train No Train Beacon Alt Lighting Country ELECTRIC SMOKE Electric Boiler Start Up Electric Pressure Release FUNCTION IDENTIFICATION 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 39 43 44 45 46 User Settable F Function List This feature allows you to take the 28 F Functions that currently reside in each MTH Proto Sound 3 0 equipped O Gauge Engine and change the location of that function...

Page 27: ...re assigned the PFA sound to F28 on your DCC controller The engine will give you a two horn blast indication Note You ve also left an empty location where PFA used to be F4 5 Now you can fill that location with whichever CV you d like For this example we are just going to move the Feature Reset up to F4 we re just swapping F4 and F28 6 Since F4 s Low Byte is CV122 then bring up CV programming for ...

Page 28: ...e ignored once the consist is removed CV19 set to 0 Setting the MSB Bit 7 of CV19 tells the engine that it is facing reverse in the consist Setting CV21 and CV22 determine which F Functions the consist responds to See diagram below for example Engine 1 Front Engine 2 Middle Engine 3 Rear Normal Forward Direction of Travel F R F R R F ...

Page 29: ...sure F0 is deactivated at the Front engine s address Most systems have a light bulb icon to indicate whether F0 is active or not Ensure that it is OFF 5 Call up the Rear engine on your DCC handheld address 3 in this example 6 Set CV19 to 128 the value of your consist address So if your consist address is 4 you would add 128 4 132 You would write 132 to CV19 This tells the Rear engine that it s rev...

Page 30: ...Up CV21 for a Consist CV21 allows you to set which F Functions you want the consist address to control For example you will likely want all of your MTH consist engines to respond to Start Up Shut Down F3 Also you ll likely want at your Front engine to respond to the Bell and Horn commands F1 and F2 respectively and the Front Coupler F7 on most MTH models Likewise you ll want your Rear engine to re...

Page 31: ...e Programming Track differ it is recommended that you use a DCC Programming Track Booster to perform functions on the programming track Simply put try to program or read back the address of an MTH engine on a programming track If you can read write the address then you won t need a Programming Track Booster If your DCC system can t read write then you will likely need a Programming Track booster T...

Page 32: ...or example CV29 you would simply add the additional bits you enabled to the existing value to obtain the new CV value For example if you had a consist address CV19 set to 5 and you wanted to alter this to show an engine reversed in the consist you would need to set bit 7 decimal value 128 for the engine you want to reverse To do this take 128 the new bit you want to set 5 the existing bit that you...

Page 33: ...move the two grease port screws two per gearbox Use a grease tube dispenser and put a small amount Approx 1 2 mL of lithium based grease into each grease port Replace the screws Lubricate the outside truck block idler and drive gears with grease Use the diagram shown in Figure 10 below as a guide and add grease to the points marked Figure 8 Lubrication Points DO NOT OVER OIL DO NOT OVER OIL Figure...

Page 34: ...pplied with a cotton swab To clean the track use RailKing Track Cleaning Fluid or denatured not rubbing alcohol and a clean rag Unplug the transformer and wipe the rails of the track turning the rag frequently to ensure that you are using clean cloth on the rails Thereafter keep an eye on the track and clean it when it gets dirty to ensure good electrical contact and to lengthen the life of the ti...

Page 35: ...ful to use two small flathead screwdrivers to stretch the tire over the wheel 3 If you twist the tire while stretching it over the wheel you will need to remove and reinstall the tire Otherwise your engine will wobble while operating 4 Make sure the tire is fully seated inside the groove Use a razor blade to trim away any excess tire that will not seat inside the groove properly 5 Reassemble in th...

Page 36: ... sending enough power to the track to power the engine Rotate throttle clockwise to increase track power Coupler Solution When I try to fire the coupler PFA starts The Proto Coupler won t let the engine uncouple on the fly The coupler does not fire or stay coupled You are waiting too long between Horn button presses See the timing instructions located at the beginning of the Proto Sound 3 0 Operat...

Page 37: ...FA the engine doesn t go into reverse When the PFA enters its last sequence the bell automatically comes on When PFA is enabled pressing the whistle and bell has no effect I push the direction button but the next sound clip in the sequence does not play or the engine does not come out of PFA after fourth press of the direction button So that PFA effects can be as realistic as possible Proto Sound ...

Page 38: ...ur tender Full CW Max volume Check to see if a screw or some other material hasn t lodged itself in the underside of the chassis or tender Make sure smoke volume pot is turned full CW Make sure smoke volume pot is turned full CW If you just filled it with smoke fluid sometimes the fluid can make a seal in the stack Blow down the stack to clear the air bubble Check the Tender Boiler drawbar connect...

Page 39: ...en I apply power to the track my engine starts up lights and sound but it won t move My engine hesitates at slow speeds Lower the track voltage then raise it again The engine should start moving If you apply greater than 9VDC quickly the engine will just sit there Lowering it below 9VDC then raising it will get the engine moving An engine may do this right out of the box if it has not been lubrica...

Page 40: ...max This is normal You will need to press the F21 button again to turn Doppler off Your engine sounds will now return to normal Check to see if a screw or some other material hasn t lodged itself in the underside of the engine Smoke Solution My engine isn t smoking at all My engine barely smokes Make sure you ve got the smoke switch ON It must be ON for the smoke to operate in DCC Mode Press F12 o...

Page 41: ... controller to make your engine move PFA Solution I hit F4 to start the PFA but the engine just keeps ringing its bell that s all it ll do Why does my engine run away all by itself after the PFA is over Bring the engine speed to 0 You will now hear the station arrival sounds pretty cool huh Pressing F4 will cycle through the PFA sequence check out the PFA section of the manual for more This is nor...

Page 42: ...n again to turn Doppler off Your engine sounds will now return to normal When I apply power to the track my engine doesn t do anything No lights no sound no nothing I get an error when I hit Start Up DCS is polarity sensitive when powered by a DC power supply This is normal You have to hit the Start Up button Check to see if that section of track has power Use a voltmeter or a lit passenger car no...

Page 43: ...way all by itself after the PFA is over Press the DIR button Your engine will stop and begins the arrival sequence Pressing the DIR button will cycle you through the next 3 PFA sequences This is normal The engine will leave the station at the same speed it entered when hit the PFA button The speed setting can be changed after the bell stops ringing Shut Down Solution Okay I give up What do I have ...

Page 44: ...t Standard Lionel 1063 Lionel LW Powermaster U A U A U A 8 17v 8 18v 8 18v 60 Watt 75 Watt 135VA Standard Standard Electronic All Trol Left Terminal Right Terminal 0 24v 300 Watt Electronic Dallee Hostler Left Terminal Right Terminal Electronic Lionel LW A U 8 18v 75 Watt Standard Lionel KW A or B U 6 20v 190 Watt Standard Lionel MW Outside Track Terminal Inside Track Terminal 5 16v 50V A Electron...

Page 45: ... LGB Jumbo 50101 18VDC on Supply 0 18VDC at Controller 240 Watt Electronic MRC 6200 0 18 5v 60 Watt Electronic Not Recommended For 70 3001 1 J3a Not recommended for 70 3001 1 J3a RECOMMENDED DC TRANSFORMERS Notes On Use Use 22 volts maximum track voltage when operating a MTH locomotive equipped with Proto Sound Loco Sound or Proto Sound 2 0 Crest CRE 55460 Power Supply w CRE 55401 Controller 0 24v...

Page 46: ...0 and Proto Sound 3 0 engines but does not turn off the input power to the TIU One Touch Global Mute UnMute Single button mutes or unmutes all DCS controlled locomotives sounds Proto Dispatch Operation Public Address like feature allows users to speak through locomotive speaker during operation Proto Cast Allows users to play audio recordings through locomotive speaker during operation Proto Doppl...

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