Hi Anders - our Grandkids have 'em, nice controllers
Drats - now I posted without owning one.

Shame on you

regards
Björn

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Nev,

There is no question where I would prefer to live but it would be novel to be able to just get the stock and help you need from a dealer whenever you want it.

regards

murray

Hi all
Thanks for that hemmerich is always good to hear from someone closer to marklin, but the cards will make the changing of a loco very quick and simple beyond the first 10 and thats functionality.
so far as support we find that internet opens us for us a great ability to communicate
back and forth with customers regardless of where they are,it doesn't matter nev if they are in aust or south island or
denmark, scotland the states to me,its just another customer wanting help.
we use it all the time, sometimes we send photos,and sometimes the questions are very basic
but thats where people are at,and by response we have found people get used to being able to
shoot a question knowing they will get an answer.
so far as backups again the internet just closes that gap,coming from 20 years in computers
its just second nature to pull down upgrades and that is the nature of the modern digital world,
it changes so fast,marklin design best at today's stage, but then intel comes out with a new chip and it blows everything
before out of the water, and what a manafacturer didn't think they could do cost wise,suddenly becomes possible.
and all folks coming into digital model railways need to understand this, like their computer 2 years is a long time in
electronics,but it brings a realism that even 5 years ago we dreamed about.
just yesterday i had a grandad and grandson in the shop hearing a digital sound loco for the first time they were
just blown away at how real model trains are now and MS2 is going to make that happen economically for many.
well im off to sleep they say we are getting snow dowm to 300 tonight so could be fun tomorrow
they come looking for trains
regards
old toot

Good luck with yours new "playstation"...!

Unfortunately, I'm not sure which documentation you refer to. There are no explicit instructions for double heading in the MS2 manual, neither was there any info on this in the recent double heading threads. Is it possible with just the MS2, and if so, what is the process? Or does the MS2 need to inherit the consist setup from a CS2?


Or have I missed something obvious?

Thanks Tom, I thought as much!

I did not find any mentions of the "Traktion" function you have in the CS2,
You can find on pages 36 to 40 from this official Märklin document. (click here)

If I want to have a very simple oval layout with only 2 lokos ("Schweizerische Re 10/10" on my case), how can I use them together with a single mobile station?
The other option would be to buy 2 mobile stations and use both hands to turn the knobs at the same time, but that would be kinda annoying.
Any solutions for me?
Thanks!

Disable mfx on your MS2 (should work with MS2 v1.80 and newer), give both locos the same MM address and run the train with the MM protocol.

So, I had some trouble to achieve this result, but hey, it works!!!
Only thing is: if I run both locos uncoupled, RE4/4 is always 5%~10% faster than RE6/6. I checked this running both in parallel tracks lots of times.
Is this normal?

I think this is causing the traction tires to come off from the wheels, once in a while...


[EDIT]
I also noticed that the 4/4 loco sometimes have a rough slightly "bumpy" acceleration, and the 6/6 have a total smooth one.
I bought it brand new, opened and cleaned (nothing to clean), changed the position of some wires to match the ones in 6/6 loco, and the problem seem to have stopped - just the speed mismatch thing now.


I looked in the MS2 manual if there is something about "engine parameters", could find only the Vmax and Vmin settings; is this what you are talking about?

hello boys would contact them via memory cards and mobile station I found a problem and the manual does not explain anything about it because when I make the change of the mobile card has trouble accepting the new card preloaded with the new engine parameters and for acceptance to reset. There algunb trick to avoid this problem.