Railking pcc street car operating instructions thank you for purchasing the railking pcc street car. The car’s durable abs body and die-cast trucks are built to ¼ inch scale proportions yet can provide hours of operation on any o-27 gauge track. The car should operate for years with any compatible a...
2 railking pcc street car operating manual table of contents quick start - basic operation 3 protosounds™ operating instructions 4 protosound® dcru® reverse unit operation(all 3-rail models) 4 horn operation 5 bell operation 5 squeaking brake sounds 6 tips on using squeaking brakes 7 self-recharging...
3 railking pcc street car operating manual quick start - basic operation the railking pcc street car contains state-of-the art electronics with several built-in automatic features for incredibly realistic operation. Despite these advanced features, the pcc street car is easy to operate with any comp...
4 railking pcc street car operating manual protosounds® operating instructions the mth protosound® digital sound and train control system provides the operator with unprecedented realistic operation on your model railroad. In addition to actual pcc car cd-equivalent 16-bit digital sounds, you get th...
5 railking pcc street car operating manual when you first enter reset, then slowly turn the transformer throttle to the off position and then back on again to enter the forward phase. Interrupting the power too quickly may cause the system to re-enter reset (signaled by two dings of the bell). Shoul...
6 railking pcc street car operating manual reverse until you press and release the bell button or re-enter neutral and turn the bell off with the whistle button. In fact, because of protosounds® state-of-the-art design, the microprocessor remembers its last command. Therefore, unless you turn the be...
7 railking pcc street car operating manual required to synchronize the playing of the brake sounds with the movement of the car. It is not uncommon for the car to stop before the brake sound is completed. Operators will find that by coordinating the movement of the throttle setting from 8 volts to o...
8 railking pcc street car operating manual self-recharging battery backup system protosounds® state-of-the-art design includes a self-recharging battery backup system for improved performance at any speed. The self-recharging battery backup system is automatically turned on or off whenever track pow...
9 railking pcc street car operating manual trolley announcements (tas) protosounds® is now equipped with operator controlled trolley announcement sounds, hereby known as tas. This easy to use feature plays digitally reproduced trolley announcements and street action sounds whenever you activate and ...
10 railking pcc street car operating manual followed by a special “passenger dong” sound which indicates that a passenger wishes to exit the car at the current stop. At this point the operator should release the bell button if he wishes to stop the car. If the operator continues to hold the bell but...
11 railking pcc street car operating manual the ability to leave the car at the stop for longer periods of time. When the operator is ready to leave the stop, the transformer throttle must be interrupted again. This will be followed by the sound of a double bell ding the doors closing. After the doo...
12 railking pcc street car operating manual completed its sequence, the car will be sitting on a track section with enough power to sufficiently get the car moving again. Adjusting the overall track voltage will help adjust the speed necessary to carry the car through the insulated track section but...
13 railking pcc street car operating manual protosound® volume adjustment your protosound® system has two types of volume adjustment. A manual turn knob on the bottom of the chassis (see fig. 1, on page 3) allows you to control all the sounds in the system and a remote control “reset" option (option...
14 railking pcc street car operating manual after the second advance, you will hear two “clinks" indicating that the computer is now in feature 2. Advance the throttle again and you will hear three “clinks" for feature 3. Advance it two more times and you will hear a “clank" indicating that you are ...
15 railking pcc street car operating manual function normally. In fact because only the engine volume is affected by selections in feature 6, when you select 0 volume, you can still hear the horn, bell and tas sounds when the engine is running or in neutral. Programming for a separate bell button co...
16 railking pcc street car operating manual throttle changes or (3)they can be programmed to be turned off. The default setting is (2) squeaking brakes are activated for full-time operation as described on page 6. To change the default setting, enter reset and go to feature 45. (see the section usin...
17 railking pcc street car operating manual in neutral). Turn the throttle off and then on again to “lock-in" your selection. Now, whenever you are in neutral, you can blow the horn with the transformer whistle button. To reset protosounds® to its original factory setting of no horn in neutral, repe...
18 railking pcc street car operating manual the lockout feature comes from the factory in the off position, meaning it is not active when you first take the engine out of the box. This is done to prevent novice operators from accidentally locking their engine into forward, neutral or reverse and the...
19 railking pcc street car operating manual reverse unit lock-out operation protosounds® unique design eliminates the need for a lock-out switch on the locomotive by allowing the customer to lock the engine into any directional state (forward, neutral or reverse) from the transformer. This will allo...
20 railking pcc street car operating manual whistle button. After about one second, you will hear a short blast of the horn. Quickly turn the power back on again. Your engine is now locked into neutral. Note: when locking the engine in the forward or reverse positions, the whistle button will blow t...
21 railking pcc street car operating manual oil & lubrication instructions in order for the engine to perform correctly and quietly, it is important that the chassis be lubricated before operation. Lubrication should include all truck block bushings and pickup rollers to prevent them from squeaking....
22 railking pcc street car operating manual 5). Once the motor mount screw has been removed, pull the motor away from the truck block and lightly coat the motor worm gear and bronze drive gear (in the truck block) with grease. Reassemble the truck and motor, being careful not to pinch the pickup and...
23 railking pcc street car operating manual once the new tire(s) are in place, reassemble the truck and the chassis to the body. Replacement tires are available directly from mth electric trains. Headlight replacement the pcc car contains two bayonet 18v interior bulbs that are controlled by the tra...
24 railking pcc street car operating manual trouble shooting protosound® problems although protosound® has been designed and engineered for ease of use, some questions may arise during initial operation. The following table should answer most questions. If you find that your problem can’t be resolve...
25 railking pcc street car operating manual lockout problems remedy i can’t get the car to run after i power up the transformer. It sits still with the lights on. The engine is locked out into the neutral position. Follow the unlocking procedures in the lockout section. The engine won’t lock out int...
26 railking pcc street car operating manual reset problems remedy when i first turn the power on, the engine will not begin to run. I have to turn the throttle off and then on again to get the engine to operate. This is normal behavior. When power to the track is first turned on, protosounds enters ...
27 railking pcc street car operating manual tas problems remedy the tas feature does not begin even after stopping the engine and hearing the brake sounds. The power was disconnected once the car entered the neutral state thus disabling tas.The transformer throttle was interrupted after the car stop...
28 railking pcc street car operating manual transformer wiring chart protosounds® is designed to work with any standard ac transformer that uses a “pure sine-wave" format. The chart below lists the many lionel® compatible transformers, such as the lionel kw or zw models. In addition, the chart detai...
29 railking pcc street car operating manual protosound reset feature chart the following chart lists the available features found in your protosound® equipped locomotive. The default settings for each feature as well as the operation sequence of the feature are listed in separate columns. You can re...
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Service & warranty information how to get service under the terms of the limited one year warranty for warranty repair, do not return your product to the place of purchase unless it was purchased from mike’s train house in columbia, md. Instead, follow the instructions below to obtain warranty servi...
