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 I believe I experienced something for the 1st time yesterday. At the Science Museum of VA show there were 3 O gauge layouts in the Rotunda.......our "small venue" layout. Our 21X36 layout and another 3 rail group. The other 3 rail group was using TMCC. Our main layout was using TMCC/Legacy through a cab 1L.

 

I was running conventional on the small layout. DCS engines ran great in conventional......my TMCC engines acted as if they where possessed! They would run for a while......and then just stand there. I gave these engines to Gilly@N&W who was running on our large layout (2 TMCC and 1 Legacy).....they all worked fine in command mode.

 

I suspect the TMCC/Legacy field was confusing them!

 

 

 

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Peter

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Hi Peter,

            You have to be really careful with TMCC/Legacy in a show environment.

As TMCC communicates by radio other layouts can pick up the signals. So if an layout has TMCC equipped engines running conventionally they can pick up the TMCC signal and think they are on a command layout. Then they won't run conventionally.

 

Rule number one is to have list of all Powermaster and Locomotive address numbers and to make sure each layout is assigned a group of numbers. So you don't get two engines with the same address number.

 

Rule number two is that as soon as you have a command base switched on in the building (at least of the size we have for our annual club shows here in the UK) you can't have a conventional layout running TMCC/Legacy engines.

 

Also never use the number 1 id address. As that is the default address for new engines.

You do not want two engines on different layouts with the same id address! 

Oh and if you push the halt button you stop every TMCC layout at the show....be prepared for some ribbing for that.

 

With DCS you don't have the radio problem as it communicates through the track. Which is why you had no issues running PS2 or PS3 engines conventionally on your layout.

You would need to be aware if you used DCS to set each remote on a different address and each TIU to a different address from other DCS users at the show.

 

Hope I explained that okay, and it sort of makes sense

 

Nick

 

 

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