Thursday 13 September 2012

Advancing in the Dark Arts


Last week saw a major move forward in the dark arts.  Fellow G scaler down here was having problems with DCC and asked for my help: which shows how desperate things were.   Got the gear but  now getting nothing - no sound, no light, no motor - could I pop round....

So, the Monday before  set to and had a bit of a play with the Dimax on decoder programming - scary stuff...   Changed some loco D's and (sound of trumpets please...) some CV's.  In my case it was to get the extra sounds (on Function buttons 10-16) that live on the Massoth chip.

Success on my part and the following night - scary stuff - but a factory re-set by rewriting a CV (which got us sound and light) but no motors and then after a bit of testing and thinking a motor re-set which got the motors working.  End result one happy G scale, one happy G scaler's wife (as G scaler is now not so grumpy as his new toy works) and a success.  Thanks must go to G scale central forum which provided lots of useful help and advice before the big evening.

Since then I've enabled the remaining sounds on the remaining locos.

This is one of the Stainz showing that the yellow functions are now working, and in particular the bell at item 15.  

One of my favourites now has to be the "gong" sound on the U class.



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