Running Your Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt With A Lionel Trans - Lionel 777 Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson Instruction Manual

Transformer operations

Running your Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt with a Lionel trans-

Place your Commodore on Lionel or Lionel-compatible O
1
gauge track.
• Note the pull of Magne-Traction
Magnetized wheels and axles increase pulling power (more than 25 cars on straight
and level track) and keep your Commodore on track while passing swiftly through
curves. Your Commodore will negotiate O-42 and larger curves.
• With track power OFF, Connect the drawbar between locomotive and tender.
Thats all you have to do with Lionel's
new Wireless Tether
communication system that elimi-
nates the plugs and wires of the past.
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Power up your Commodore with your transformer.
• Your Commodore is designed to operate on 8-18 volts alternating current.
Virtually all Lionel and Lionel-compatible alternating-current transformers are
suitable; we recommend the TrainMaster Command model railroad control
system.
• D
o not power your
tronic components may occur.
• When you first power up your track, the Commodore will wait between 3 and 8 sec-
onds as it "listens" for digital language from the TrainMaster Command Base (avail-
able separately). When it' s determined that it' s on a conventional (nonCom-
mand) railroad, the Commodore' s headlight will illuminate and Railsounds will fire
up. At this point, the Commodore is in neutral. (This occurs when placing the
Commodore on your railroad for the first time. Thereafter, it starts in forward after
every three-second power interrupt.)
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Move 'em out!
• Get your Commodore moving. Press the DIR button on your CAB-1 remote or
Lionel transformer. This sequences the Liontech Command reverse unit
(LCRU2) to the next operating state.
• Adjust track voltage until your Commodore moves at your desired speed.
between your Commodore and the steel track.
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, an infrared
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C
ommoDore with DireCt Current
(DC). Damage to sensitive elec-
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