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I have a new Rev L DCS remote and TIU and have been thrilled with it. On three occasions in the last three months though I have had the remote lose an engine address. Not a big deal as I just re-add the engine and give it a different number. I understand from a previous response by Barry that this is a known glitch but was wondering if there was something I was doing wrong that would cause it to happen more often than usual. Maybe too many trains on my small layout or parking them too close together?

Thanks

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Barry,

 

Many thanks, your thorough and easy to understand explanation is VERY much appreciated. Being relatively new to DCS I didn't know you could backup a remote. Looks like I'll have to go back and do some more reading in that book you wrote.

 

RJR,

The first time it happened I had been overusing the display backlight and refused to believe the low battery warnings. When the batteries went full dead I was in the middle of running an engine that went on its merry way. I had to shut off track power and go buy more batteries. When I got things back up I had lost that engine address. I've had two additional loss events since with different engines but nothing out of the ordinary happened just prior to those.

 

S

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Barry,

   Your explanation for this problem is the best I have ever seen in print.  Having a back up hand held remote is definitely they way to go, and I have now had mine up graded to rechargeables, another nice option, especially for the back up.

Thanks again for the education.

 

Scott T,

   Having the hand held remote control upgraded to a rechargeable is seriously cool and eliminates the need for battery changes for darn near ever.  Bill up in Maine has upgraded 2 of mine for me.

 

PCRR/Dave

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