Snap-it Programming

[peach james]

So, the question is how do I program the CV's 550 and 552 on a Snap-It ?  The NCE manual says to use Op's mode, which I think should work.  But...I am using Digitrax, and can't see how to address a stationary decoder in OPS mode.

 

(or, for that matter, in Decoder Pro, using a Digitrax PR3 programmer)

 

Any hints on a postcard,

 

 

James Powell

[Nigelcliffe]

You can't....

  
Very few systems support ops-mode accessory decoder programming, NCE is one of the handful which do support. This is not the same as ops-mode mobile decoder (loco) programming, which loads of systems support. 

 

You can, in principle, get it to work from JMRI/DecoderPro, but you'll end up constructing the DCC packets and sending those to the track yourself unless someone has written a script for you to use - I don't think such a script would be massively difficult to write, but its not one I'm about to attempt.

 

 

- Nigel

[BoD]

I don't know about the Snap-It but I have been having similar problems trying to program the Switch-IT with a Lenz system. There us a topic about it somewhere but sadly with no resolution.

 

The instructions suggest that trying to program it with a loco address should work but it doesn't. Emails to NCE elicited no more than a 'read the manual' type response. Digitrains were sympathetic but don't use this particular combination and so couldn't really help either.

 

I'm continuing to experiment without particularly having any success.

[peach james]

OK, kind of at a dead end then for now.  I will see who's NCE system I can borrow for a few hours in order to program it...that seems the easiest way ahead for me. 

 

James