Hi,

Question regarding DR5000 and 6pin decoder chips, I have around 30 locos both Dapol & Farish running chips from Bachmann, Gaugemaster, ESU, Lais, Zimo etc and today I was giving all my locos a run out for the first time on my layout since it’s rebuild and since I got my 5000, I used a Dynamis Ultima before, all but 1 worked fine ?I have a farish class 108 DMU with a Bachman chip in the power car and a lais in the dummy, it would not run, it wasn’t being seen by the z21 app or my laptop via the 5000. ?We attached an Ecos system to my layout and it worked fine, we then changed the chips for ones from another unit and it worked but the chip failed when put into another loco we tried a later version of the Bachmann chip and an Esu lokpilot v4 and programmed them with the Ecos but still nothing with the DR5000, the address is 108 is there anything stopping me from using that address?

just a suggestion, but try making the address below 99 and see if that helps.

I have other locos with lower and higher addresses that work fine, I was wondering if 108 is blocked or if there’s a problem specific to either early bachmann chips or ESU lokpilots with that addres.

I would still try changing the address, and perhaps reset the chip before you start looking at other ideas

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Thanks James,?