irchyboy

Hi. I appreciate this thread is now a few years old but I wondered if anyone can throw a little more light on the subject or have developed a work around. I have two Lima class 43 power cars each fitted with Hornby Valenta decoders which I want to run as a consist. I use NCE powercab. As stated above Hornby chips dont allow advanced consisting and they have to be set up as 'old type'. I can set both units sound on before configuring the consist but after a derail only the lead unit can be accessed and reactivated as NCE powercab won't allow access to any other loco while consist is active meaning I have to delete the consist before restarting the trailing unit. There was a suggestion about using a second controller to stack the units and access them separately but obviously I can't do that with only one controller. Grateful for any more info on this.