M.T.H. F-3 ABA Instruction Manual - page 4
M . T . H . E L E C T R I C T R A I N S
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F-3 A B A DIESEL ENGINE SET
Throttle up the power to your track. Give enough power so that the engine s headlight
shines brightly.
Then put the engine into motion by either firmly pressing the Direction
button on your transformer or remote once or dropping and advancing to throttle to put
the engine in forward.
BASIC OPERATION
Use the operation buttons on your transformer as described below.
Horn/Whistle
-
To sound the horn/whistle, firmly press the Horn/Whistle button. The
horn/whistle will sound for as long as you continue to depress the button. It will stop
when you release the button. The horn/whistle has four different endings, depending
on whether you hold the button for less than three seconds, three seconds, four sec-
onds, five seconds or longer.
Bell
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To sound the bell, firmly press and release the Bell button. To turn the bell off
,
press
and release the Bell button again. The bell will continue to ring from the time your turn
it on until you press and release the button again to turn it off
.
Direction
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Your engine is programmed to start in neutral. To put the engine into for-
ward
and then to change the direction of the engine or to put it into neutral, firmly press and
release the Direction button on your transformer. Just as you must stop your car
between forward and reverse, this engine will not go directly from forward to reverse; it
OPERATION BUTTONS
MANUAL VOLUME CONTROL
To adjust the volume of all sounds
made by this engine, turn the master
volume control knob, located on the
underside of the engine, clockwise to
increase the volume and counter-
clockwise to decrease the volume.
(see Figure 1)
Figure 1 - Proto-Sound 2.0 Volume Adjustment Knob
THROTTLE
Volume Adjustment Knob