Operating Your Locomotive In The Conventional Environment - Lionel Powered F3 B-Unit Diesel Locomotive Owner's Manual

Conventional transformer operations
Operating your locomotive in the conventional environment (continued)
1. Place your locomotive on Lionel or Lionel-compatible O-31 or larger track.
2. Power your locomotive at 12-18 volts with your alternating current (AC)
transformer.
Power your locomotive with an alternating-current (AC) transformer only.
Caution!
Powering your locomotive with a direct-current (DC) transformer, or in excess
of 19 volts AC, may result in damage to sensitive electronic components. 60 HZ
AC is required. Do not power with 50 HZ AC.
3. Wait three to eight seconds as your locomotive determines whether it
is in a conventional environment or a TrainMaster Command Control
environment.
After this delay, you are ready for operation in the conventional environment.
4. Move 'em out!
Press the DIRECTION button on your transformer to sequence your locomotive through
the repeating pattern of operations: forward, neutral, reverse, neutral, and so on. You may
also briefly turn off track power to advance the locomotive to the next operating state.
Adjust the throttle until your locomotive moves at your desired speed.
When placing your locomotive on your layout for the first time, it will start out in
Note!
neutral. Thereafter, it will start in forward after every power interruption lasting five
seconds or longer.
We recommend that you operate your LEGACY diesel locomotive with The
Odyssey II Speed Control System turned on. You may choose to operate your
locomotive without speed control by placing the Odyssey II Speed Control System switch to the
"NO ODY" position. See Figure 1 on page 12.
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Conventional transformer operations
Locking your locomotive into a single direction
W
hen the Command reverse unit switch is in the RUN position, your locomotive sequences
through a repeating pattern of operations: forward, neutral, reverse, neutral, and so on.
To "lock" your locomotive into a single direction (for example, to operate in forward only), you
can deactivate the Command reverse unit's sequencing function. Refer to Figure 1 on page 12 for the
location of the Command reverse unit switch.
1. Use your transformer's DIRECTION button or interruptions in track power to get your
locomotive moving in the desired direction or into neutral.
2. Slow the locomotive down without stopping (reduce the throttle without turning off track power).
3. Slide the Command reverse unit switch to the PGM position. At this point, the locomotive is
"locked" into your chosen direction. See Figure 1 on page 12 for the location of this switch.
To restore the forward-neutral-reverse sequence, just slide the Command reverse unit switch back
to the RUN position.
Coupling your locomotive in the conventional environment
Y
our locomotive features an ElectroCoupler that is released by remote control at any point around
your layout in the TrainMaster Command Control environment.
In the conventional environment, the ElectroCouplers will not open manually or by using a
Remote-Control Track section. To couple your locomotive in the conventional environment, you
must rely on a piece of rolling stock equipped with a magnetic coupler. Simply release the magnetic
coupler and couple the rolling stock to the locomotive, even if the ElectroCoupler is closed.
Keep in mind that you may still make use of Lionel Remote-Control Track sections (6-65530
for O gauge; 6-12746 and 6-65149 for O-27 gauge; and 6-12020 and 6-12054 for FasTrack layouts)
with the magnetic couplers on the rolling stock. Place the trigger disc on the magnetic coupler over
the central coil on the Remote-Control Track section, then press UNCOUPLE on the track section's
controller. As illustrated in Figure 2, the magnetic field pulls the disc downward, releasing the coupler.
Figure 2. Magnetic coupler operation
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