02-25-2009, 07:50 AM
Holy cow - I guessed right and it worked!
Thanks to a suggestion on the Bachmann Forum stating I should add more resistance, I increased the length of the programming track and added a Bachmann lighted Amtrak passenger car along with the HHP8 engine. I went through the programming steps to change the engine's address to the engine's road number - and it worked! I still don't understand why adding resistance allowed the Zephyr to "see" and write to the decoder...but it worked. Go figure.
Thanks to a suggestion on the Bachmann Forum stating I should add more resistance, I increased the length of the programming track and added a Bachmann lighted Amtrak passenger car along with the HHP8 engine. I went through the programming steps to change the engine's address to the engine's road number - and it worked! I still don't understand why adding resistance allowed the Zephyr to "see" and write to the decoder...but it worked. Go figure.
Mark
Citation Latitude Captain
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Lt Colonel, USAF (Retired)
Citation Latitude Captain
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Lt Colonel, USAF (Retired)