Hello everyone,
I'm new to this forum and digital world of railroading; have been enjoying collecting and running Marklin analog for about 45 years and now that my son has taken up the hobby, I've been catapulted into the 21st century and what a ride!
We recently aquired a 37024 (Snow-camoflaged '53'); a lovely engine except for one problem: Everything worked fine until we installed the second smoke generator (Seuthe#10--pink 'digital bottom'), now the engine stops working within a few seconds of switching on the smoke and will not move/make sounds/lights flicker until the smoke is switched off; it was working fine with just the one smoke gen. I heard that Marklin had delayed introducing this model for 'undisclosed' reasons; I seem to have a 'pre-release' copy, bought from an authorized dealer who attended the conference in Germany where this model was introduced to the dealers. Any thoughts would be well appreciated. Cheers and all the best for 2012!
JD

Hi JD,

Welcome to the forum.

Ian.

Thanks for all the quick replies and very usefull information; it would seem that indeed the second smoke generator power prong was touching the body of the loc.
A quick 'heads-up' to anyone experiencing similar (grounding/short-circuiting) situations, don't do what I did: as the loc kept stopping (the mobile 1 station would keep going into 'stop' mode) I assumed that there was something wrong with that station so I unplugged it and tried another station, which promptly gave up the ghost. I had some earlier issues with feedback from an analog loop on my layout which took out my initial mobile station and now had three unserviceable mobile stations. Having fixed the shorting smoke-box on my 37024, I tested it on my analog layout and after having sayisfied myself that all was well, went out and bought the mobile2 station which is working fine (except for my mfx locs having issues being recognised)

I'm somewhat embarrassed by all this, but thought I'd post my experience hoping that this might save others some hassles (and expense) in learning from my mistakes.

This digital world is turning out to be quite a learning curve, but I'm loving the experience!

JD
Canada

Hi everyone.

I experiencied the same problem with the Märklin 37993 Big Boy. The problem is only that electric current when you turn on two Seuthe 10 is too big for the decoder output. If you want to install two smoke generators then use Seuthe 11.