mike50001 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 think its just me not doing things in the right order, but how do you consist sound locos. i can drive them both together, but i cant get the sound to respond. do i need to start them up before consisting them? thanks in advance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piemanlarger Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 what system are you using to control the consist? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelcliffe Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 It depends a bit on how the locos are being consisted.... There are two main methods of consist; those where the command station does the work (and sends duplicate instructions to two loco addresses, usually called "Universal Consisting"), and those where the loco is given a temporary consist address (usually called "Advanced Consisting"). Typically with NCE, one uses Advanced Consisting (though it does support both options). NCE further complicate Advanced Consisting by a concept of "Lead Loco", which is the one which responds to function keys without changing any settings in the loco. If you have set the Lead Loco, then the function keys (lights and sound) should work to that loco without further work. Now to the other locos in an Advanced Consist; there are two approaches: a ) Call up the address of the loco and operate its function keys, then flip back to the consist. Probably messy on a PowerCab when one has gone to all the work of creating a consist, though may be OK if you had a second handset, or if you used the "recall" key to flip between consist and second loco. b ) Change the CV settings for the loco so its function keys operate on the Consist Address (rather than the loco address which is being used in (a) above). Typically a decoder from factory has these set for "loco address" rather than "consist address". For most decoders, this is controlled in CV's 21 and 22. If you want all function keys to work on the consist address, then set CV21 and CV22 to a value of 255. You might decide to only set some function keys to respond on consist address (eg. leave the lights on the loco address so its possible to correctly not illuminate lights on second loco, but move the sound keys to work with the consist). If consisting certain locos is a regular operation, spend the time to setup ( b ) so that functions are controlled as you want them. - Nigel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike50001 Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 thanks for the replies, ive been using the basic consist, will have a play later with the advanced consist options Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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