Aw Mark, you made me take it downstairs and test it.
The four LED's flash when sending the data. Sometimes it would work and
sometimes not (message was couldn't see engine). It seemed to work better
with the DCS100 setting than the DCS50 setting, but hard to tell. Not sure
there is any difference with DecoderPro anyway.
I hooked a decoder tester directly to it and would get the same
response!
I then used it's internal controls, ie the Zephyr it's self and got
about the same response. So I have to guess from here that it's busted.
Both systems, DecoderPro or the Zephyr panel attempt many time to read but
have limited success. It's not that they never read but would guess 90% of
the time they can't see the decoder. I have tried different decoders and
different track and direct connection with a decoder tester. All behave
about the same. Comments?
Jon Miller
AT&SF
For me time has stopped in 1941
Digitrax DCC owner, Chief/Zephyr systems
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS
So I have some guesses here. The flashing LED's are probably current usage
that should be going to the programming track. I think the current is
limited too much to program. I tried both an engine sitting on a track and
the connections directly to a decoder tester. I think a call to Digitrax is
in order. I never saw the LED's flash when programming from the box but
maybe didn't pay attention.
