Bill,
Thank you.? Changed the USB slots around and got it running
Thank you for your support.
John Greenwood
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On 14/03/2025 01:19, Bill Chown via
groups.io wrote:
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The SPROG only turns on the Track Power momentarily during?
all the programming activities. This is designed? to ensure that
a Programming action on a newly installed or connected decoder
will not destroy a wrongly connected decoder.
To really see any voltage on the Trk connections, use the
Power button on the top of the Roster screen (probably Red right
now) to switch it to Green. The SPROG Power light should now
flash slowly, and you can see AC voltage on the track
connections. Note: most cheap multimeters are not good at
showing the actual voltage, but should show something on an AC
range. DCC is a square wave AC waveform at higher frequency than
AC power from the wall at 50 or 60 Hz, and so is not typically
read correctly by normal multimeters.
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But,
back up!
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Do you know that the SPROG is correctly connected to your
computer?
Open the SPROG Console from the SPROG (or similar) menu. You
should see several lines of commands, one of which will show the
SPROG version. Your computer/JMRI does not know that version,
and so has asked the SPROG for it. If you see a version there,
your SPROG is in touch, and you can move on to trying to find
power!
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Bill
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