Old Spike

Hi, I need a detail kit (especially the handrails) for the Vitrains class 47 to finish my model of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I saw this loco named at Temple Meads in 1965 and would love to get this model finished. Will pay your price for the kit or would swap it for an unused Vitrains 47848 Titan Star body - with no detailing kit :-( Thanks Mike

The retailer returned the decoder to me yesterday, programmed as I requested and it is now working OK. I haven't tried reading from it yet. I will leave that for another day when I have some more time and contact Zimo if there is still a problem.

I have just had this reply from the supplier of the Zimo 600R In the meantime we have tested your decoder and have successfully programmed it. However it will not read the address back when interrogated. If you program the decoder it will accept all commands. We have tested it in a locomotive with success. Once programmed if you select the locomotive for operation the decoder will operate normally. As a precaution we have tested all the other mx600R decoders on stock and they all operate this way. I have accepted their offer to program it for me but would be interested in your comments .

Thanks for your help guys. I have still had no luck with it so have returned to the supplier. Some good new though my long awaited Hornby TTS for Class 37 arrived yesterday so I have installed that in a Vitrains 37 with a baby boomer speaker and it all works brilliantly. Excellent train control down to a ridiculously slow crawl and so much sound output I'm going to have to tweak the volume down.

WIMorrison, my apologies, that is what I meant. (stupid newby mistake) I am trying to use New Loco in JMRI.

Yes, I am using the New Loco function of DCC++. DCC++ is an Arduino based system, I have tried entering CV values direct from that but again I don't get a response from the loco.

Hi everyone As you will notice this is my first post so I apologise for joining the forum and asking questions straight away. I did look for an area where I could introduce myself first but couldn't find one. Anyhoo As the title suggests I have just received a Zimo MX600R after reading good reports about it on this forum but can't make up my mind whether it is faulty or I am missing something obvious. I have a small layout that uses JMRI & DCC++. Up to now I have used a mixture of Hattons, Hornby & LaisDCC decoders and have not had any problems reading or configuring those using JMRI however when I try to read the Zimo decoder info. on the programming track the motor ticks twice and the headlight flashes at the same time but I get the message " no response from locomotive" To test my setup I have tried the decoder in two locos and have substituted the Zimo with a Hatton's which I can read OK. Have I missed something ? reading the huge Zimo manual there was mention of unlocking the decoder, I'm not sure if it was relevant to my decoder but tried it anyway but it has not helped, neither has resetting decoder with CV8 = 8. Your suggestion will be gratefully received.