Zimo MXTAPS

[peterm1]

Hi all,

My turn for a question. I think I know the answer but bear with me, if you would. I have an MS480 decoder that failed part way through sound loading and Stephan Hubinger at Zimo has given me some info' about fixing it. The one part I want to clear up is that one of the things I have to do is to connect the blue wire (common positive) to the common positive terminal on the MXTAPS. I can see that the last terminal in the row is marked C+/F4. As I say, I think I've got it as it's the only one marked this way, but confirmation from someone that actually knows this, would be really good.

[Nigelcliffe]

Dunno,  but you could use a multi-meter to trace that connection on the MXTAPS to the decoder positive on one of the decoder sockets, eg. PLUX.   

[Bucoops]

Must admit I've noticed that on my MXTAPS and wondered how it works - can't be a common AND a function output at the same time, can it?!

[peterm1]

Thanks for the replies.

 

Nigel Cliffe,

I must admit that you've lost me there.

 

Bucoops,

 

Exactly what I was wondering.

 

The reason I haven't simply asked Zimo, is that they're busy and it's that time of year..

[peterm1]

An update. I connected the common positive wire to the terminal +V/F4 that Stephan told me to, and the decoder went into self repair. This done, I followed the rest of the instructions to load one of the free uncoded files from Zimo. This took a long time to load and even then didn't sound right. I then loaded the sound file from Digitrains. This started at 12.45 and finally finished at 18.00. It was still nowhere near right, even though I could read CV's. I'm now thinking that I might have a faulty decoder. Nothing for it now, but to email Zimo again.

 

Thanks for all the replies.