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Locked Re: Broadway ltd

 

Hi Robert,

Not at all sure how it could have caused the ensuing mess, but there definitely is a hole in your way of working. Where you said 'wrote page' (after my first whoah...) you were writing information to the decoder that had not been read from it first. So anything that was in memory at the time, except for the address things you changed, would have been only slightly better than random.

Wouter


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 19:25, Robert J. Richter <rjr@...> wrote:

See below

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Robert J. Richter

283 Elm Street

North Reading, MA 01864

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of whmvd
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 11:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Broadway ltd

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Hi Robert,

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I am totally unsure what you actually did. This is what I get from your description, but I cannot work out the rather important details.

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I put it on the program track

- Check.

It read as short address 174, correct long address but with short bulleted

- Check.

I corrected that

- Whoah. Corrected what, exactly? Am assuming short to long and nothing else. And also assume you wrote *something* back to the decoder. But what? Individual CVs? Changes? Entire sheet? All sheets?

????????????? CHANGED TO LONG BULLIT, WROTE PAGE, SAVED

and read the decoder all CV¡¯s

- Whoah again. That's too late. If you want to program, first get the entire decoder content in your sheets.

??????????? READ ALL CV¡¯S AND SAVED

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saved

- Because now you have no real idea of what you saved. None at all.

then it would not find it in the list

- What list?

????????????? THE LIST OF LOCOMOTIVES IN MY (THE CLUB¡¯S) ROSTER

and came back with short address (I had saved bulleted and wrote long)

- So you read the address again? Just the address? Sheet? Indicidual CVs? All sheets?

??????????? DID AN IDENTIFY, COULD NOT IDENTIFY, AND THEN DID A NEW LOCOMOTIVE READ

redid the whole thing

- Hmmm.... WIthout the more exact steps it becomes even more difficult to follow what goes on.

still would not find in list

????????????? LIST OF MY LOCOMOTIVES IN ROSTER

- Glad to hear that - doing the same again on a digital system and getting the same result is in my view a Good Thing

and then we went to the regular track and it had changed not only the short but also the long address as something completely different

- Intrigued. I have no idea how you read the address on the non-program track?

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I fear you need to start over with this decoder, and start with reading all. I hope you'll see more consistency after that.

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Wouter

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 16:16, Robert J. Richter <rjr@...> wrote:

Last knight a club member came to me with a Broadway ltd Pennsy K4 and I put it on the program track, It read as short address 174, correct long address but with short bulleted I corrected that and read the decoder all CV¡¯s, saved then it would not find it in the list and came back with short address (I had saved bulleted and wrote long)? redid the whole thing still would not find in list and then we went to the regular track and it had changed not only the short but also the long address as something completely different, made me look real stupid to the member who was kind about it but was really frustrating.

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Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

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Robert J. Richter

283 Elm Street

North Reading, MA 01864

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