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  1. Keith, I had quite a detailed answer from Richard Johnson of DCC Concepts, but I'm still having no luck at all admittedly my Sprog3 is in for repair so I've tried out the process with a Sprog2 but with no luck at all either in Programming or Command Station modes. Richard had got his tech team in Australia to set up the same conditions and they had no problem, My Sprog3 was running a different version of software to the guys in Australia, but the JMRI and Java versions were the same, so once I get the Sprog3 back I'll try again. Pete
  2. I've posted a request for help on the JMRI list, but there's a lack of response so far, I've emailed DCCconcepts to see if they've got any answers, but thanks for your help Paul. Pete
  3. In JMRI Decoder Pro on a laptop there is a drop down menu when you click on "Actions" then I click on Turnouts, which offers a blank box with a flashing cursor in which I put in the number of the point that was programmed in to the point motor, with a mobile phone running "Engine Driver" there is again a drop down menu for the point number or you can swipe the screen left to right and the point control screen shows the point(Turnout)control panel waiting for the point number to be input, but regardless of how I input the number the effect is the same - nothing! At least they work perfectly on the pushbuttons whilst connected to Decoder Pro. Pete
  4. Hi Paul, The Laptop+JMRI+Sprog+mobile phone ran my trains perfectly yesterday and I could operate the points via the push-to-make buttons fine, so power is reaching the Cobalts but I was unable to make them work from either the laptop or mobile phone, I've asked for help on the JMRI yahoo list so I'll see what happens there. Pete
  5. Well I hooked up the JMRI, a router and the Sprog, powered up the test track with the cobalt iP point motors and nothing happened!!!! Tried both direct from the laptop and from a mobile phone, checked it all out again using my Digitrax DT400 and they worked first time - now scratching head and getting splinters Pete
  6. Well I tried last night at the club with JMRI and the Sprog in command station mode Paul, and followed your instructions in your post, with no luck at all, this evening I hooked up my Digitrax system to it and using a DT400 handset and your instructions for a NCE handset successfully programmed two Cobalt iP digital point motors, tomorrow I shall hookup the JMRI and the Sprog and try using a mobile phone as a hand held controller, I can think of no reason why it shouldn't work.......watch this space ;-) Pete
  7. The instructions that come with the Cobalt are vague as well, but thanks again for your help Paul Pete
  8. Thanks Andy for putting it in the right place, and thanks to Ron for alerting Andy lol
  9. Thanks again Paul, that makes more sense, as you say the instructions are a bit vague.
  10. Thank you very much for that Paul, I'll do that later
  11. Good evening everyone, I've been trying to program a Cobalt iP Digital point motor using JMRI DecoderPro 4.4 with little success, I've called it an evening for now and will probably program the Cobalt using a Zephyr tomorrow, then try it out with JMRI, if anyone has had better success than me I'd be pleased to hear how it should be done :-) Pete2210
  12. Shelvington is great, but shame that 1206 was off the road...leading axle
  13. Hi dseagull, I had a layout many years ago that would have linked Seaford to Eastbourne via a coastal route, emerging from a tunnel close to the "Golden Galleon" inn and going back into a tunnel by Exceat farm, there would have been a mineral siding at Exceat Station served by the old mineral line that came up from Cuckmere Haven, with a narrow gauge branch serving Litlington, Lullington and Alfriston and Drusillas terminating at Berwick Station, it would have cost a lot of money to build in real life, but that is what our dreams are for :-) I spent a lot of my childhood holidays in that area staying with an "Aunt & Uncle" in Litlington village. Best wishes Pete
  14. Zappatime, I built an Ace models kit of the ex LBSCR K class on 7mm and in spite of all of the members of my club warning me not to buy one, I did, and it went together very well and ran even better, I put a HOG motor in it and it would manage 13 coaches around the club test track. I believe that Bill Ascough himself once described his kits as an aid to scratchbuilding, regardless of that I found the K enjoyable to build. If there is a down side to this particular kit it was the lack of instructions for it, if I remember rightly there were about three pages of A4, sparsely illustrated, an access to pictures of your chosen prototype is certainly a must. Pete
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