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Offline craigericks  
#1 Posted : 01 September 2014 02:12:59(UTC)
craigericks

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My dealer brought mine to my layout for a bit of a running day. Everything to seemed to be working fine after I adjusted the speed, sound, and braking delay using my CS2. After making a couple of trips around my layout the locomotive defaulted to a crawl speed, even though the CS2 showed it should be moving at the max adjusted speed. Did a factory reset, made a weird electronic screeching sound when doing so, but once again it worked for a short period of time and defaulted back to crawl speed.
Tried a second 37870 that he had with him and noticed that the sound was wrong. It sounded like the diesel rail bus, and two of the functions; short whistle and sanding function did not work.
Anybody else out there having similar decoder malfunctions with this model?
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Online H0  
#2 Posted : 01 September 2014 07:49:02(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: craigericks Go to Quoted Post
After making a couple of trips around my layout the locomotive defaulted to a crawl speed, even though the CS2 showed it should be moving at the max adjusted speed.
I heard this before: loco ran out of (virtual) sand and allows crawling only. Refill the sand and it will run normally again.

Probably a firmware bug - sand should not decrease and should not matter when Playworld was not activated.
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Offline Bigdaddynz  
#3 Posted : 01 September 2014 08:25:43(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: H0 Go to Quoted Post
......loco ran out of (virtual) sand and allows crawling only. Refill the sand and it will run normally again.


In case you were wondering, this is a feature of the new mfx+ decoders. You should be able to turn this off in the loco's properties on your CS2 - check the loco manual for details.
Offline craigericks  
#4 Posted : 01 September 2014 13:26:45(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Bigdaddynz Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: H0 Go to Quoted Post
......loco ran out of (virtual) sand and allows crawling only. Refill the sand and it will run normally again.


In case you were wondering, this is a feature of the new mfx+ decoders. You should be able to turn this off in the loco's properties on your CS2 - check the loco manual for details.


Thank you for the information. Now to retrieve that lok from my dealer. I will be happy if I can get it working such that I don't have to worry about the on board resources.
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Offline craigericks  
#5 Posted : 01 September 2014 13:30:35(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: craigericks Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Bigdaddynz Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: H0 Go to Quoted Post
......loco ran out of (virtual) sand and allows crawling only. Refill the sand and it will run normally again.


In case you were wondering, this is a feature of the new mfx+ decoders. You should be able to turn this off in the loco's properties on your CS2 - check the loco manual for details.


Thank you for the information. Now to retrieve that lok from my dealer. I will be happy if I can get it working such that I don't have to worry about the on board resources.


Once again, Read the Manual....Blushing
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Offline craigericks  
#6 Posted : 06 September 2014 23:38:11(UTC)
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Got the lok back. Took it out of Spielewelt semi-pro mode which it defaults to according to page 6 of the manual when first put on a layout with CS2 software ver 3.7. All is good.
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