 Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 910 Location: Kalk Bay, Cape Town
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Strange thing happened on my friends layout last week - both his fx locos suddenly stopped running, at the same time. They were running on parallel tracks, right next to each other. All his mfx locos continued running. Also, the turnout mechanisms did not function, (he has some with decoders, and some with K83's). He uses c track, MS2, with v1.81, track box v1.39. He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked.... so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...!  Any thoughts...  thanks, Joe
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...on MS2 V1.81 we can choose between MFX, or Motorola, or MFX+Motorola, or Motorola+DCC, or MFX+DCC+Motorola, etc, etc... FX loks and Turnouts have one common point : both are Motorola...... (for one reason or another, or inadvertently, Motorola could have been disabled...) Edited by user 02 July 2012 12:36:31(UTC)
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 Joined: 14/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 9,942 Location: Gibraltar, Europe
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Sounds like a spurious shut-off (SSO). Sometimes with electronic systems an electrical discharge or other disturbance will radiate enough energy to change a bit from 1 to 0 in a memory chip. This is sometimes enough to cause a whole section of the circuits to shut down or become inopearable. A reset usually clears this up. The SSO can also be caused by charged particles, so watch out for more shut-offs during Solar storms!
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Hi! Originally Posted by: Joe Meiring  He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked.... so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...! Any thoughts... Probably everything would have worked again if only the power supply was disconnected from mains for 10 seconds or so. I hope this won't happen again. If it does, don't do a reset, just power off for 10 seconds and try again. At a club meeting a few weeks ago, some mfx locos would not register correctly with my MS2. Tried a friend's MS2 and locos registered correctly. Tried my MS2 again and locos registered correctly (without reset). Power off, count to 10, try again ... |
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 910 Location: Kalk Bay, Cape Town
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Thanx so much everyone - will pass on this info to Terry......And I'll watch out for those solar storms!!!!
Joe
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Joined: 03/10/2010(UTC) Posts: 646 Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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Joe, Glad everything is back up and running - don't think it could have been signal related issue ! Keep everybody working at their layouts ! Regards,  John
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 910 Location: Kalk Bay, Cape Town
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Originally Posted by: Johnvr Joe, Glad everything is back up and running - don't think it could have been signal related issue ! Keep everybody working at their layouts ! Regards, John Hey John...good to hear from you! We trust you enjoying the holiday Terry says to rest well, you have loads of work waiting for you on his layout..  see you soon....Joe
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 910 Location: Kalk Bay, Cape Town
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Originally Posted by: H0 Hi! Originally Posted by: Joe Meiring He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked.... so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...! Any thoughts... Probably everything would have worked again if only the power supply was disconnected from mains for 10 seconds or so. I hope this won't happen again. If it does, don't do a reset, just power off for 10 seconds and try again. At a club meeting a few weeks ago, some mfx locos would not register correctly with my MS2. Tried a friend's MS2 and locos registered correctly. Tried my MS2 again and locos registered correctly (without reset). Power off, count to 10, try again ... You SO right Tom....used my "spare" MS2 the other day, and it wouldn't load any mfx locos - so powered off, for about 20 secs or so, tried again, and everything worked! Thanks so much, Joe
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