The joys of DCC
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Have actually managed to get the DCC sorted in the Simplex. I wired in another decoder (after disconnecting but not removing the first one), so had a glorious mess of wires. What it did proove though was that the first decoder was faulty so that will be going back very soon. So bit the bullet and chopped all the wires which then makes them really lovely to solder back together together again but is essential as not too much room to play with if it is going to be invisible. Here it is all installed and all connections either heat shrinked or epoxied.
Went to test it all and worked really smoothly, in fact, the best loco I have to date. Only thing was I still had it on the default steam sound so went to change it to the inbuilt diesel. It jumped forward, jumped back and then nothing. You can imagine the language. Would not then respond to anything. As an alternative to launching the whole thing at the wall, I got out my PR3 programer and read the chip only to find that it had reset the address to 0. Put this , and the sound, right on the programer and am now back in business. I have found the slightly better sound I used on the other one but as I seem to remember that changing it was not without incident, I shall same that until tomorrow.
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