Luke Palmer Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Hi all Today I bought a windhoff MPV which was already fitted with DCC. But I had a problem with the 21 pin decoder, it was not listening to my Hornby Elite. I thought it must be a problem with the decoder, so I took it back to the shop and exchanged it for a new one. Anyway when I got home I had exactly The same problem, but this time, luckily I had found a Hornby 21 pin decoder. So I plugged the decoder into the MPV, and it all worked perfectly fine. Does anyone know what the problem could be? many thanks, Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 ...Does anyone know what the problem could be? Not from that problem description! What exactly did you do on receipt of the model? Ideally you will have put the model on DCC programme track, and changed the address from its default to the address you wanted to use for operating it. If the new address is accepted, that confirms that the decoder installation is good. (If you did this, was the failure to respond when you then tried to operate it on the newly set address?) Now that you have established that the model is working with a different decoder, the only way to find out more is to reinstate the supplied decoder, and try again with an address change on programme track, and then test on DCC power to see if the decoder responds on the new address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I do seem to recall that at least some of the MPV models had a problem with Bachmann's own decoders. The short-term answer was to fit a different manufacturer's decoder, but I'm not sure what Bachmann's longer-term fix was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliepetty Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I do seem to recall that at least some of the MPV models had a problem with Bachmann's own decoders. The short-term answer was to fit a different manufacturer's decoder, but I'm not sure what Bachmann's longer-term fix was. The Hornby Elite is not the Best System in the world, I would by a better system that is 100% NMRA compliant such as a Roco Multimaus. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_l_jones Posted November 6, 2016 Share Posted November 6, 2016 I had issues with mine. Sorted by fitting a Sapphire Decoder. There is another thread on this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Palmer Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 I had issues with mine. Sorted by fitting a Sapphire Decoder. There is another thread on this topic. I had issues with mine. Sorted by fitting a Sapphire Decoder. There is another thread on this topic. Yeah that's what I did in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_l_jones Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Yeah that's what I did in the end. Glad to help, sadly the solution didn't sort my Dapol 73 out tho... Not sure what im going to do next.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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