psychobeagle12
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Ok, so the other day I'm tinkering with my ez-command system, putting some spectrum coaches on the rails. One of them lit up and I didn't want to try to run locomotives until I knew how much amperage the lights drew, just in case I would overtax the system. I get out my ammeter, unhook one of the wires at the tie-in point, and set the ammeter to read amps. I proceeded to place the leads on one wire coming out of the system and then on one wire going to the layout, you know, read the amperage on the line. Well, all I can say is, with a bachmann ez-command system, NEVER, EVER use an ammeter set to amps DC to read the amperage running through the line. I mean, I knew that DCC wasn't DC amperage but when I set the stupid thing I had a MAJOR brainfart... All of a sudden I smelled burning plastic and my system has not turned back on ever since. I contacted bachmann customer service though and they said if it is less than a year old they will replace it, so here's hoping! It's going back today, along with the K4 that I have from them, to hopefully be repaired or replaced.