09-20-2023, 08:11 PM
I haven't updated here for a while. I have just been doing some minor repairs to rolling stock so nothing worth talking about. I will have some projects coming soon that I may do some photos for ya'll.
I did run into a unique one with an Atlas -8-32BW. It quit responding so I did a decoder reset several times and nothing worked. I finally put it on the program track and I found it addressed as 51 which is the consist address I had set. Using that address it would run but the directions were reversed. I thought I had reset the consist address to 0 but it read 173. I set the cv19 to 0 and all is well, but I was hours figuring it out. I think the problem came because the locomotive address was reading the consist address. Normally I address the locomotive address and set the consist cv (19) to 0 and it clears. I had to address the consist address to clear that CV this time. It's the first time ever I have read the values in a decoder and I would have saved a lot of time had I done that in the beginning. I still learn something new every day.
Charlie
I did run into a unique one with an Atlas -8-32BW. It quit responding so I did a decoder reset several times and nothing worked. I finally put it on the program track and I found it addressed as 51 which is the consist address I had set. Using that address it would run but the directions were reversed. I thought I had reset the consist address to 0 but it read 173. I set the cv19 to 0 and all is well, but I was hours figuring it out. I think the problem came because the locomotive address was reading the consist address. Normally I address the locomotive address and set the consist cv (19) to 0 and it clears. I had to address the consist address to clear that CV this time. It's the first time ever I have read the values in a decoder and I would have saved a lot of time had I done that in the beginning. I still learn something new every day.
Charlie