Hi,

This is my first question in this forum. Hope that this is the right place to post it.

I am building my first model railroad (Märklin H0), and in order to get started with automation I have just upgraded from the MS2 to the CS3+. I have three locomotives so far, two of them with mfx decoders. When I add the small Märklin shunter locomotive that came with my initial "Märklin Starter Set" purchase, it is easily discovered by the CS3+ and everything works like a charm.

However, I also have a DSB MZ 1425 from McK (Decas), and I am having troubles making it work with the CS3+. When I tell it to discover new mfx devices, I can see on the display that it really does discover a "DSB MZ", but it never shows up in the locomotive list. Does anybody know what to do?

I buildt a small test track and connected it to my MS2 (reset to factory settings), and there I had no problems discovering and running the locomotive.

Thanks!
/Michael

I had the same thing happen when I first installed a couple of the first MFX locos. A restart of my CS 3 solved it. I think searching for MFX devices is apart from searching for MFX locos. Otherwise if it is in fact installed but won't run, or you can't turn on functions, remove the loco. then try again.

I tried restarting but that didn't solve the problem. Then I tried resetting the CS3+ and then I was able to detect it again using mfx, but it still didn't show up in the list. Maybe I'll have to bring both locomotive and CS3+ to the shop and get some help.

/Michael

Yes, that and by chance have you tried the "edit" Locos. menu to see if it shows up there with the oval icon at the window box bottom in red? I think I had that, and after I checked ok, exited th edit Loco. menuu, there it was. It may have showed up on the left or right knob as being operated though. I don't recall accurately.

Thanks! My problem has been solved. Since I did three different things at once, I'm not sure which one (or ones) did the trick. I wasn't familiar with the "programming track" concept, so I picked up valuable knowledge along the way!

/Michael

The CS 3 is a bit much to navigate for the first time.

Since the loco is not a Marklin one it would not be in the CS3 list of Marklin locos. However there are two ways you can get a picture onto your registry. First and easiest is by clicking on the picture screen which will bring up a list of Marklin locos in the CS3. You can then search through the list by entering the engine type and then clicking on a similar Marklin loco. The other better but more complicated method is downloading a picture in .gif format onto a thumb drive and then transferring that onto the CS3. Video here:

I have downloaded pictures from manufacturers', retailer's, auction houses, even posted online by individuals. Sometimes you need to try different sites for the best picture.