The Challenger STILL!
Now this makes no sense AT ALL, BUT!
Put the thing on the program track ON MORE TIME:
Settings: Program track from DCS100, Decoder Pro 1.7.5, using settings of Direct Byte mode, MRC Steam Sound #1627.
As usual NO readback from the decoder. SO being of had it mode and not caring if it fried or anything I just sent it a new address from the console of (4). Flipped the track from Program to Run and IT WORKED PERFECT
WHY???
Bar keeper, leave the bottle please!
Thanks to all who tried so hard on this thing!
It seems that gremlins enter decoders from time to time. I had a dickens of a time with the 100LC in my 0-6-0 switcher and threw up my hands late on evening. I went back the next day, threw the power toggle, and it winked at me…the l’il bugger. Been fine ever since. Digitrax SEB with DT 400.
claycts,
Be sure to save your present functioning settings to your DecoderPro roster file…because it will probably happen again. Have a drink and order a Tsunami!
George,
This is straight out of the “give me a scotch and a revolver” situations.
I love to read things like this. It reminds me not to take things personally when the “gremlins” decide how things are going to be if only for a while. I concur with the reader who says that this will happen again. Make a copy of the configuration.
Thanks, Chris
Ah, the wonders of modern electronics!
Many years ago I was dealing with a program that: 1. Automatically assigned an employee number to a new arrival, and 2. Filled unused RAM with 001100110011…
So when it assigned employee number 4040, the entry would vanish into electronic limbo with the first attempted change of status (promotion, assignment to a different unit, qualification upgrade.)
Then the @#**%?!! would assign 4040 to the NEXT new arrival!
After the third incident, we created an artificial “person,” assigned to a shop code used for aircraft undergoing off-base overhaul/modification. Since there were never any changes posted to LtCol Michael D. Rodent, the problem (sort of) went away.
As far as I know, Mickey Mouse is still in that system, employee # 4040.
Chuck
MRC decoders are awesome huh? My friend’s challenger sometimes shuts down and wont respond no matter what we do, but a couple weeks later, with no change at all, it starts working again. No thank you MRC I’ll stick to TCS, Loksound, Soundtraxx, etc.
I’ve got an Atlas MP15 w/QSI decoder-sound that can only be programmed “in the blind.” Any attempts to read it fail. I’ve got an EasyDCC system with a PowerPax on it, and still no joy on reading the thing. Programming on the Main doesn’t seem to do much good for it either.
But all my other locos work fine… and once programed, so does the MP15.
I do love DCC, but man… Like trying to figure out that miss in an old engine or trying to understand women. Also, I dont know what scares me more. Something going kaput and I dont know why, or I somehow “fix” something, and I dont know how I did it.