You have not connecting red and brown wires as reverse loop on the layout???
If you do it...there will been disturb at communication on digital traffic.

...you did it while the CS was switched off , I presume....

If I were in your situation, as ultimate solution I re-programm & re-install each signal on CS2 as if they were new, like the first time...(perhaps it is what you want to avoid ...)

....it seems that your CS2 communicates with everything, ....excepted your signals : so strange , really !
How do you trigger your signals ? with trains through S88 ? (with routes through the memory )....analog through insulated rail ?...manually by you, pressing your finger on screen ?....
Are they trigerred manually AND/OR automatically through the Memory ?.

I press the icon which is on the layout page and by the memory route.

I hope to do a factory reset tomorrow and then do a usb back up. I hope the CS2 can the see the back up the is there on the stick. I will keep my fingers crossed if that will not work a new unit will on on order. I think my luck has to change soon the 3 dealers I use are out of stock. I rang hobby co the UK importer they have some in stock but Gauge master want to charge me £150 more there are taking the ......... not wonder they sell nothing and don't deserve to at that price.

Charles.

Hello Robert.

Good idea I will do that. I will see if I can get onto the same stick. I have used a slim stick but as the usb socket on my cs2 is very close the the main body of the unit I have had to cut away little bit of the plastic on the stick so it will fully push right into the socket.

Charles .

Hello Anders.

I only have 1 cs2 but today I have done so called reset and then did a back up on the USB stick but signals still set on green. That is the good bit as I can run my trains. As I mentioned before we have made up a long cable to go from a signal to my old cs1 and the signal works as normal / perfection

Charles

Hello Elliott.

All the signals were programmed on a section of track were they we're going to be fitted. Did you do all yours on the program track. I don't remember see in the book about doing them on the P T.

Charles.

I am see what you are saying but unable to see how. I just shut down the CS 2 and just removed all the cables put the unit in the box and sent it away. When it came back I just put all the cables back in and switch it back on.

Charles.

...electricity...mystery...magnetic fields.......electronics.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse


http://en.wikipedia.org/...h_1989_geomagnetic_storm

As I am having to restrict my movements do to bad health at the movement and my cs 2 is down Jill my wife has gone and bought me a new CS2 60215 as a early Christmas present. . Before I go ahead and start to load it all up I have some questions.

1] Is the latest SW 2.0.1 [0]

2] Is the latest HW 5.1

3] Do you think it would be best to take all lokos off the layout and put each one on the program track for the MFX to do it's thing and to add all the others manually.

Charles.

Well that proves the cs that Marklin had repaired is broken. I loaded the signals into a new CS 2/ 60215 and ha posto they all worked . So it was down to the unit not me. For know I will leave things alone and just enjoy the new unit. If I go to the treff next year I will take it in for repair or send back to them next year mid Jan.

Charles

The versions sound about right - certainly the software version is (although there have been some minor updates to that version which do not change the version number). Hardware version at 5.1 will support 5 amp output with 60101 power supply - all versions 4.31 and above support 5 amps.

It is best to only have 1 mfx loco on the track when locos are being registered, that is Marklin's recommendation.

Charles,

If it was just two wires going to the mast to control the LEDs, the two LEDS wouldn't work properly. You would need at least three wires to control two LEDs, say a common ground and a positive feed for each LED. And what about the signals that have more than two color LEDS?? You would need many more wires to control all of the LEDs.

Do you have the 2010/2011 catalog? In the English version you can look on page 250. If you look at the written "talking points" next to the picture of the signal, the second one from the top says "Micro-electronic circuit in the signal housing controls the light function". In the third paragraph on the left hand side of the page basically says the same thing. The two wires (actually the two green metal girders of the mast) carry a digital signal from the PCB to that micro-electronic circuit in the mast head. That is where the address is held as well as the circuitry that makes the LEDs slowly fade in and fade out. This allows you to program a mast in one location, but then put it in any spot on the layout. For my floor bahn built on short wooden modules, I have taken the closest mast, soldered two wires to the "shorting contacts" on the PCB and brought those wires out to the front of the module connected to a SPST on/off switch. That way if I want to program a mast, I insert it at that location, flip the switch "on" to put the PCB in programming mode, program the mast, flip the switch "off" and then put the mast where I want it to go.

Hope you understand all of this ... if not, just ask more questions ...

Robert

Charles,

Yes, that should work. When you flip the on/off switch connected to the shorting contacts, you are basically telling the on board micro computer to go into the programming mode. Other than making sure you have power to the PCB, it doesn't care what else is connected. If you really wanted to get fancy, you could add a DPDT switch and change the power from the main out on the CS2 to the programming track output while programming. I didn't do that and it programs the signal fine.

I would post some photos of what I did, but my layout is on the floor right now. I need to do some cleaning in the house for Thanksgiving dinner with family, so maybe I'll take some photos when I pick the floor bahn up ...

As I write this, another thought came to mind ... if you had a straight section of track near the edge of your permanent layout, you could isolate a section of it and with a DPDT switch, you could change the power coming from the main out from the CS2 or from the Programming output. Would make it easy to do programming of locos ... just a thought ...

Robert

Hello Elliott.

I agree with you I think the idea of soldering the wires from the short out strip on the PC board to a switch is a very good idea. I have some material to make up a face plate for the switch and hope to get it installed this coming week with a bit of luck. i am a bit busy at the moment next weekend is my last woodturning show for 2012.

Charles.

I had sent a e mail to the Marklin rep that came to gauge master some years ago just as I got started and he did a seminar on the CS 1 about my problem with the cs2 /60213. I must admit I had forgotten about the e mail but yesterday the phone rang and hay presto it was the Marklin rep. I explained the problem and he suggested one or two things but still no luck. So he asked me if I was going to be home in 1 hour and he was going to talk to the tec guys at Marklin and call me back. He rang me back and asked me to try something in the settings but still no luck. So it has been left for me to to get in touch with him when Jill and myself have a few days in Germany early next year and I am to take the CS 2 with me and the tec people will have a look at it for me.

Charles.

Your CS2 supports DCC right? Check to see whether DCC is active in the station that's giving you trouble and disconnected in your new one. I use the Ecos and after being completely unable to program my Marklin signals succesfully I found the answer to the problem in this forum. Also I wasn't alone with the problem. Once I switched off DCC signals from the track and programmed the signals I could switch DCC back on and no problem.

Hello.
We checked that very early on but and that was one of the things the Marklin man asked me to look at.

Charles.

Charles,

I trust it will work as well for you as it has for me!!

Robert