WIMorrison Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 I was taking to some people at Warley last week and they suggested that the Z21 doesn't play nicely with Railcom and consequently the new Digikeijs occupancy detector (https://www.digikeijs.com/dr5088rc-digidetect.html) with Railcom may not work with my Z21 I have hunted around the net but am unable to find anything that says Roco has an issue with Railcom that may cause this not to work and Digikeijs aren't answering nails or responding to Tweers either. What are the views here, you chaps know most things - or it seems that way to me (and I for one am very grateful for the help!) Many thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIMorrison Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 Is no-one using railcom and a Z21, or is no-one using railcom? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIMorrison Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 That is what was said at the show but it was unsubstantiated and I cannot find anything that suggests it doesn’t work with railcom - other than opinions on fora such as this, no examples or facts I know that it works as I can read the CVs whilst doing POM and you need railcom to do that and I haven’t had any issues using it in this way. Perhaps I will just have to get one and see if it does work - or doesn’t and then I will have a definitive answer either way? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeg Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 That is what was said at the show but it was unsubstantiated and I cannot find anything that suggests it doesn’t work with railcom - other than opinions on fora such as this, no examples or facts I know that it works as I can read the CVs whilst doing POM and you need railcom to do that and I haven’t had any issues using it in this way. Perhaps I will just have to get one and see if it does work - or doesn’t and then I will have a definitive answer either way? I have a Z21 and not railcom, the Z21 will read on the programm track or on the main if only one loco is on the track, I found this out whilst using on my workshop test track that has a switch between the two outputs when I forgot to switch from the main to program and it still read the chip. mike g Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Kettlewell Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I have the Z21. Sometimes I've had instances where a loco chip has malfunctioned eg failed to respond, runaway loco. In those cases I've read the advice is to turn off Railcom in the chip. This has usually solved the issue so I've concluded that Railcom isn't a good fit with my system. I don't know if it's Z21 related or not but I don't feel the need for Railcom anyway so I don't have it turned on. Cheers ... Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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