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LM-3S track over voltage casualty

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Alan:
In theory yes. Although I would expect you to have lost other electrical items as well.

Several years ago we took a lightning strike on our hot wire fence. It took out every lightning arrestor on the fence, exploded the fence charger into a thousand pieces, came through the service line to the barn where it took out every GFI in the house. It also fried our sump pump, an electric drill that was plugged in, and a half dozen CFL bulbs. Everything else in the house and barn including the train layout was unaffected. Strange which devices took the hit and which ones did not. Given the sump pump was submerged under water and located next to the load center where the barn service is connected, I suspect it bore the brunt on the lightning current.

Gibs:
Path of least resistance.

GMM6809:
Hey all, the reason I know it was an over voltage error was because I was using it with the computer in the interface.

Maybe my computer is slow, but even after the smoked module/engine was removed from the track it still showed on the computer that it had a over voltage warning, once I clicked on it and went back to the engine screen it went away, but it was there.

The power supply that I was using (came with the power cab second hand) was not an NCE one, nor did it have any power output indications on it.

It is now in the trash. Haha

I called Ring and was able to get it sent back to them, they should receive it Friday and hopefully they’ll let me know what they find.

I’m definitely saving for the RailPro starter pack though.

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