Good morning fellow Märklin enthusiasts,

When’s the last time you saved your configuration on you ESU ECoS or Märklin CS2 or 3?

Here a little story on my error of judgement.

Sunday afternoon I decided to take out my n scale European model trains to have some fun. I setup the track on my dining room table. Meanwhile I disconnected my ESU ECoS from my main Märklin layout in the basement to use for the controller. I reset the voltage to 14V. Everything is set up and the N scale trains are running just fine!

Then I put on another DCC equipped locomotive. Somehow this one had a very long acceleration delay. So I changed the CV value, to no effect. Tried a few more setting which also did not take effect so I decided to reset the decoder. Guess what?

I accidentally pressed the “Reset device to factory settings”

Ah I though! What the !

I know I saved the configurations on my laptop then my heart sank as I realized that the laptop isn’t mine anymore as I gave it away just vaguely remembering that I reset that laptop to new when I did.

So here I sit with the conviction to pass on my experience to you! Please after you have created all of you settings for your layout on your ECoS or CS2 or 3, please store your configuration as a backup on a computer so you will not experience what I have done!

To be honest for me all is not lost. This is going to be a good evaluation of my “lost” knowledge to revisit the basics of setting up my ECoS. With the added benefit is that it’s all from the OIU without any wiring involved!

Moral of the story, don’t press that button!

Good question Bigdaddynz!

Why was my post moved and put into a this post?

I had this under a different heading and poof it disappeared! Trying to figure this out just now and I found it here? I got here because of a search with the word: ECoS. Seems the subject and description texts were changed by ?

Since I have way of modifying my post how did this happen?