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Offline Joseph Meiring  
#1 Posted : 02 July 2012 13:53:30(UTC)
Joseph Meiring

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Strange thing happened on my friends layout last week - both his fx locos suddenly stopped running, at the same time. They were running on parallel tracks, right next to each other. All his mfx locos continued running. Also, the turnout mechanisms did not function, (he has some with decoders, and some with K83's). He uses c track, MS2, with v1.81, track box v1.39.
He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked....so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...!RollEyes
Any thoughts...Huh
thanks, Joe
Offline franciscohg  
#2 Posted : 02 July 2012 14:02:20(UTC)
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Gremlins?
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Offline jeehring  
#3 Posted : 02 July 2012 14:21:09(UTC)
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...on MS2 V1.81 we can choose between MFX, or Motorola, or MFX+Motorola, or Motorola+DCC, or MFX+DCC+Motorola, etc, etc...
FX loks and Turnouts have one common point : both are Motorola......
(for one reason or another, or inadvertently, Motorola could have been disabled...)
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Offline RayF  
#4 Posted : 02 July 2012 16:14:13(UTC)
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Sounds like a spurious shut-off (SSO). Sometimes with electronic systems an electrical discharge or other disturbance will radiate enough energy to change a bit from 1 to 0 in a memory chip. This is sometimes enough to cause a whole section of the circuits to shut down or become inopearable. A reset usually clears this up. The SSO can also be caused by charged particles, so watch out for more shut-offs during Solar storms!

Ray
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Offline H0  
#5 Posted : 02 July 2012 16:50:31(UTC)
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Hi!
Originally Posted by: Joe Meiring Go to Quoted Post
He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked....so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...!RollEyes
Any thoughts...Huh
Probably everything would have worked again if only the power supply was disconnected from mains for 10 seconds or so.
I hope this won't happen again. If it does, don't do a reset, just power off for 10 seconds and try again.

At a club meeting a few weeks ago, some mfx locos would not register correctly with my MS2. Tried a friend's MS2 and locos registered correctly. Tried my MS2 again and locos registered correctly (without reset). Power off, count to 10, try again ...
Regards
Tom
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Offline Joseph Meiring  
#6 Posted : 03 July 2012 10:08:15(UTC)
Joseph Meiring

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Thanx so much everyone - will pass on this info to Terry......And I'll watch out for those solar storms!!!!
Joe
Offline Johnvr  
#7 Posted : 03 July 2012 12:15:02(UTC)
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Joe,

Glad everything is back up and running - don't think it could have been signal related issue !
Keep everybody working at their layouts !

Regards,BigGrin
John
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Offline Joseph Meiring  
#8 Posted : 03 July 2012 15:19:37(UTC)
Joseph Meiring

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Originally Posted by: Johnvr Go to Quoted Post
Joe,

Glad everything is back up and running - don't think it could have been signal related issue !
Keep everybody working at their layouts !

Regards,BigGrin
John

Hey John...good to hear from you! We trust you enjoying the holidayBigGrin Terry says to rest well, you have loads of work waiting for you on his layout..LOL
see you soon....Joe
Offline Joseph Meiring  
#9 Posted : 06 July 2012 13:26:28(UTC)
Joseph Meiring

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Location: Western Cape Cape Town
Originally Posted by: H0 Go to Quoted Post
Hi!
Originally Posted by: Joe Meiring Go to Quoted Post
He coupled up his "spare" MS2, and everything worked....so....he did a factory re-set on the "faulty" MS2, and all is well again...!RollEyes
Any thoughts...Huh
Probably everything would have worked again if only the power supply was disconnected from mains for 10 seconds or so.
I hope this won't happen again. If it does, don't do a reset, just power off for 10 seconds and try again.

At a club meeting a few weeks ago, some mfx locos would not register correctly with my MS2. Tried a friend's MS2 and locos registered correctly. Tried my MS2 again and locos registered correctly (without reset). Power off, count to 10, try again ...

You SO right Tom....used my "spare" MS2 the other day, and it wouldn't load any mfx locos - so powered off, for about 20 secs or so, tried again, and everything worked!BigGrin
Thanks so much, Joe
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