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Santa Fe Rly		#1 Posted : 05 September 2023 06:07:33(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/06/2023(UTC) Posts: 2 Location: Canterbury, Christchurch		I operate a Marklin analogue layout with 1960s AC equipment. I also have a larger 2 rail layout controlled by NCE DCC and JMRI. A friend of mine operates similar equipment but has recently bought a secondhand BR 24 steam loco cat #36244. This loco refuses to move using his controller a Marklin #66471. My question is can I set up my NCE/JMRI Decoder Pro with 3 rail test track to check and reset if need be the decoder to operate on straight analogue as well as DCC as can be done with 2 rail decoders?


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kiwiAlan		#2 Posted : 05 September 2023 15:07:33(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,109 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: Santa Fe Rly I operate a Marklin analogue layout with 1960s AC equipment. I also have a larger 2 rail layout controlled by NCE DCC and JMRI. A friend of mine operates similar equipment but has recently bought a secondhand BR 24 steam loco cat #36244. This loco refuses to move using his controller a Marklin #66471. My question is can I set up my NCE/JMRI Decoder Pro with 3 rail test track to check and reset if need be the decoder to operate on straight analogue as well as DCC as can be done with 2 rail decoders? Maybe, the decoder definition for the msd and msd/3 decoders are in JMRI. So you should be able to use a DCC controller such as the NCE to access it. You may find that the loco actually uses a simplified decoder as fitted to many of the Start Up series, and I don't know if these will work on DCC, I suspect they are only MM2/mfx capable.

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Santa Fe Rly		#3 Posted : 06 September 2023 11:53:33(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 26/06/2023(UTC) Posts: 2 Location: Canterbury, Christchurch		Thanks for that when owner gets back to me I will give it a test.


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Wolfram_Stn		#4 Posted : 17 February 2024 15:45:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 14/02/2024(UTC) Posts: 13 Location: Grand-Est, Alsace		Originally Posted by: Santa Fe Rly Thanks for that when owner gets back to me I will give it a test. Five months later : did you be successful ? I have some lack of time since my last decoder configuring with JMRI, but I did find them under "TRIX", not Märklin. Maybe this has changed since 2020.


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kiwiAlan		#5 Posted : 17 February 2024 15:52:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,109 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: Wolfram_Stn Originally Posted by: Santa Fe Rly Thanks for that when owner gets back to me I will give it a test. Five months later : did you be successful ? I have some lack of time since my last decoder configuring with JMRI, but I did find them under "TRIX", not Märklin. Maybe this has changed since 2020. This for the historical reason that Trix were using DCC decoders before Marklin started adding DCC capability to their decoders. So rather than get a new indentifier they continued using the Trix identifier for all Marklin and Trix decoders. I don't know if the large scale decoders use Trix or LGB as their identifier.

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