I decided to give to take mine apart initially to look at how the sound decoder was fitted and clean all the contacts as the running quality can be a bit iffy. I also added some extra weight in the smoke box which might help it haul a couple of coaches. I have been steadily adding fire box flicker to many of my existing and new sound locos. Zimo easy and Olivia's ESU Loksound easy as both already set such that Aux 1 green wire is linked to wherever the coal shovelling function key is set.
The Oxford Rail Adams, however is a different story. Initially I could find no function slot for Aux 1 or Aux 2 anywhere from F0 to F28 , nothing set as a default and nothing about lights in the Oxford Rail leaflet to give any clue It appears that the light functions are not activated. Bit odd given there is some lovely cab details and a round hole in the fire box already to make fitting an orange glow LED easy. I had a shot at it but it is very confusing to understand the Loksound Manuel The model comes with an ESU Loksound v4 fitted. Coal shovelling for example is F4 but Aux 1 does not work with it as would be useful. I do not have the Loksound programmer but having read various V4 manuals and lots of attempts to get some light on! I have ended up with AUX 1 as fire box flicker CV 275 on 4 comes on F0 but it works only on reverse and then only for 5 or 6 seconds unless I press F0 again. Aux 2 was not on either and in having a go to move it on the Aux 11 I have succeeded in turning it on F7 somehow and works both directions. F7 on the Adams is break squeal on/off not the ideal place for a cab light. Just wondered if anyone can explain how to map Aux 1 and Aux 2 for particular Function keys and to not have then only directional? It ought to be pretty easy but following some of the blogs I've seen it is more by luck than correct programming that I can get any Aux light function to work.
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