I know I’m posting right after a post that talked about catagory but I feel this is a general question…
Has anyone been using Decoder Pro? If you are did u upgrade to the new version and find it to work incorrectly and at times burn out decoders? We installed a newer version and this happened to us after using it successfully for months.
just wondering…
Dan
Search these forums for Decoder Pro…and you will find what you are looking for.
David B
I don’t know what problems you are having, but Decoder Pro can not do anything to burn out decoders unless there is a problem with your command station, the decoder install, or the decoder itself. Digitrax did have some problems when switching to RoHS compliance where some of their decoders would work initially, but then fail after programming a speed table. Somebody might be more help if you describe your problems, and tell us the version number of Decoder Pro, what command station you are using, and what decoders you have had problems with.
Also, tell us what kind of interface you are using between the computer and the command station.
I just downloaded Decoder Pro and got my LocoBuffer USB in the mail yesterday, so I’m very interested to know if anyone’s having problems “blowing up” decoders.
I have a Digitrax Super Chief (radio) and have been using decoder pro for over a year. I am running decoder pro on an old Windows 98 Pentium III Personal Computer. I use a Digitax MS-100 connected to an RS-232 port in the computer. It has worked great.
From time to time some of my Digitrax and NEC decoders would start acting “goofy”. I just take the locomotive off of the layout, boot up decoder pro and re-write all of the CVs (which are saved in decoder pro) back to the decoder. I put the locomotive on the layout and it works fine.
I don’t think that there is anything in decoder pro that could burn out a decoder. Decoder pro communicates to my Digitrax programming track through the Loconet to the command station and then to the programming track.
JIM