As my topic suggests, my cs 60212 does not auto detect mfx. It is not through a booster but through feeder wire. It is a new locomotive, so it is not found in the list on the CS, and the locomotive is not responding to the supposed default address. The CS is updated to 2.0.4. I just bought this new old stock locomotive and need to see if it is defective before the insanely short return window closes. Thank you for any assistance.
VInce

Are you sure your new loco (which article # has it?) has a mfx decoder inside? If it has a mfx decoder inside you must not know the digital address and you will not find it in any list. The registration data is stored onto the mfx decoder.

At my MIST we use a CS 1 (art #60212). I bring all my brand new locos (last time in January 2020 with my E 17 37064) with me to let them run on a big layout. I never had any problem of registration the mfx decoders at the CS 1 with my new locos. It only always needs a tremendous long timefor the regsitration process. 5 minutes are not unreal. Perhaps you are to impatient? The CS 1 is very,very slow.

I have an old mobile station that detects 1 of the mfx locos but not the other. The CS60212 now will detect 1 of the 2 mfx. I need to use a single long piece of track with feeder wire and have the wires in the program port on the cs 60212. The other locomotive is a new old stock 37084. The seller said it worked upon sale. So one MFX will load, it is just a pain. The other loc will not communicate with either controller. I fear I might have been sold a bad locomotive. Is it possible that shipment from Europe caused damage to the decoder?
Thanks for all your help,
Vince

I know the box says that in shipment it went through x-rays. I doubt that they would design something that was not robust enough to go through x-rays. I have some emails in to local repair shops, local being within a 2 hour drive... Hopefully one will give me an opportunity to come out and run some diagnostics without hitting me with a fee. My railroading budget has gone through the roof recently and wife will not allow any more money on my hobby. Not for a while. Hopefully one of them have some good news.
Thanks,
Vince

Forget the diagram in the manual.
There are 21 pins and there 21 holes and there is only one way to get each pin into the right hole. Look for the missing pin and the missing hole.

Do I understand it correctly. You have 2 mfx locos. One (article# unknown) is working, the 2nd is 37084. From this loco you opened the tender and the built in decoder was not connected together? Well, if the decoder is not connected it cannot work. Can you put the decoder together and try its function?

(post superseded - did not see the last post before my posting)

I had a myriad of issues. I have recently put together a decent layout surround a 60212. Neither of my MFX locomotives would register. To get the first unit to register, I had to remove the feeder wires from the layout and create a separate line of 3 tracks, where my CS would register the MFX locomotive. It was not easy as the manual states, as it only registered when I had the feeder wires in the programming track output. So after a bit of trial and error and resetting my CS and thus losing all my switches, I got locomotive 1 working. Locomotive 2, the initial problem locomotive, the 37084, would not register. I heard a rattle in the tender, assuming that perhaps some glue let loose and the speaker was not seated. Upon taking the tender apart I found the decoder board just sitting in there floating. I managed to get an idea as to how it would sit, but the diagram in the owners manual was not helpful at all. After some investigation and having my daughter cross her fingers for me, I successfully installed the decoder. Problem solved. Very annoying.
Thanks for your input and ideas in the matter
Vince

I'd like to see a picture of this 'mating', if possible
Thank you