Hi Experts,

I have upgraded a Marklin 55800 V 200 loco with an ESU Loksound XL 5 decoder.
In summary: works OK on my CS2, auto detects and an MFX loco, take it to my outside layout with MS2, and nothing

- MS does not detect it as an MFX loco
- If I try to Find it as a locomotive, still nothing, does not see it as an MFX loco
- When I try to find it as a DCC loco, I can see that the loco moves a bit during discovery, but still says nothing is found
- I can see the DCC address programmed when I look at the CVs in CS2, if I manually add the loco to that DCC address on my MS2, still nothing happens, does not move, no sound, nothing.
- I tried saving the loco to a card on my CS2 and transfer the loco settings to the MS2 that way. But the card function just does not do anything. I wait for 5 minutes and nothing happens and nothing is saved on the card.

What did I miss? Is there something wrong in the decoder settings?
CS2 and MS2 were updated about 4-5 months ago, I think MS2 is on 3.55.

Thanks,
Csongor

Yes, I did that too, but did not seem to help. I remember that the loco was wiggling a bit on the track when it happened, but still would not move after that.

The MS2 should auto discover mfx locos, right? I am thinking maybe the Loksound is not enabled to DCC?

Also I seem to remember reading something that Loksound will try to detect if mfx is supported by the controller and if so it will use mfx and will turn of DCC support. Maybe this is the reason I cannot use it as DCC afterwards? Maybe I only enable DCC on MS2 and try to control the loco that was so it does not try with mfx.

Telling us how you are connecting your MS 2 with the tracks. Are you using a track box or are you using your CS 2?

Are you using a booster between the MS2 and the track? In that case the MS2 will not receive any feedback from the mfx decoder. So you would have to change the decoder setting to DCC protocol and set a DCC address in MS2.