I have a number of QSI equipped sound locomotives. How do I tell if my engines have the latest chip update?
Joe
Here’s a good place to ask your question
QSI has the procedures, and a detailed listing of QSI-equipped locomotives, on their web site at the following:
http://qsisolutions.com/pdf/htrqsi_dcc.pdf
An even simpler way to know is, unless your locomotives are less than one year old, they do not have the latest update. Then you need to determine if the update is worth the cost.
Even with this listing of products, I was told by Tony at Tony’s Train Exchange that QSI’s list is not accurate. I had four Broadway Limited E7 locomotives that are not on their list.
QSI Industries is a very good webpage to start.
I authored a thread about upgrading my M1a and here is the link of my story.
http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/1132882/ShowPost.aspx
Otherwise I would just write the same stuff all over again lol.
Every QSI chip has a very specific set of numbers. THAT number is the key to telling the model year, version and what-not on that specific chip.
I thought about putting my old M1a chip into one of my F7 units and make it sound like a … well a M1a. LOL.
The NUMBER ONE benefit of upgrading… drumroll please…
is the retirement of the old Lawsuit chips. You can start a upgraded QSI engine on just one click of the DT400 throttle and hold it at one scale mph all the way around the track… switches and all.
Sometimes I ponder the feasibility of billing the Courthouse and all Involved with that lawsuit the 30 dollar cost of the chip.