I'm hoping someone can help me with this crazy issue. Apologies for the length but I thought it best to describe everything.
We are running a club size layout, 25 x 35 double deck, with a NCE system. Currently we have three (3) NCE AIU's (fourth waiting) with NCE BD20's providing detection on the mainline and passing sidings. When running trains during an operating session we add about 7 or so throttles and started having issues with gibberish appearing on the throttle displays. We've added power boosters to the layout and that seems to have taken care of the issue. When running an engine around the layout and looking at the LED's on the AIU's the appropriate block's are turning on and off.
When I developed the panel and added the sensors I added the AIU's via their number/port and PanelPro assigned the sensor numbers. i.e. AIU 58. I entered 58:1 and it assigned NS912. this is where things go crazy. When I start PanelPro and the Panel comes up it comes up showing various blocks occupied even though their is nothing on it. If I do have an engine or engines on it it may or may not show the correct status in those blocks (the AIU LED's are correct). I wrote a previous message and one of our members was kind enough to send me a script, initlayout.py, which I run on startup and that doesn't take care of the issue. Last night some of the guys fixed an issue with one block and added two additional ones, again testing by watching the AIU LED'S. While they did this I checked the tables, etc and could not find anything wrong. I also started to notice that the indication on the panel started going crazy with blocks flashing on and off by themselves, no-one running, no engines on layout and no one working. We even disconnected all the AIU's and restarted PanelPro, ran the script (it is in start-up), and indication was still wrong.
Any ideas? I'm hoping someone has seen this happen or something similar.
Thanks ... Albert
