?Brian
I am going to take a shot at clarifying what Karst was saying about Release .....
In the WiThrottle protocol there are two commands that are supported - Release and Dispatch.? What they do is remove control of a loco from a throttle, and the loco the throttle? controls becomes empty.? Karst implemented these early in the introduction of the YD9401/YD7001 in North America - they are heavily used by Digitrax users. It is my understanding that if no other throttle is controlling the loco that is Released/Dispatched, its slot in the Slot Table becomes empty, and as such I would expect that?bus traffic to that loco should stop.
The throttle you are using needs to support these two commands.? At our club we use the Train Control Systems (TCS) UWT-100 and UWT-50, that support both Release and Dispatch, and we also use Engine Driver on Andriod cell phones and WiThrottle on iPhones that support only Release. We also have two Z21 WLANMAUS throttles and they do not support Release or Dispatch commands.
We use the Release command when a loco is returned to a main yard after switching a town yard - it allows the Yard Master of the main yard to take over the loco and know that their throttle is the only one controlling the loco.
I am not certain if Release and Dispatch are supported in other protocols beyond WiThrottle that the YD7001 supports.
Jay Lennox - Toronto
