RJR
Thank goodness. At least I know for once I'm actually doing it right. Again sorry for the seemingly jerkified response, but I was certain with your knowledge and experience that question was more of "why are you doing that, when you don't have too", versus what you were asking, "why do you have to deactivate the engines, just curious?" Thanks for asking because again I have learned something I needed to know.
Joe
I'll have to keep you posted, but I am going to attempt to duplicate the problem. If I do, I will use the advice you just gave me about removing the engines not used from the track. I have no unpowered tracks. I'm also going to use RJR's advice when I run them this afternoon and do a voltage test with meter while one is actually running. Never thought of that. Signal wise, I'm getting a reading of 10/10 sitting still on the staging track. I'm hoping this was a WIFI issue since it never happened while I was using the remote. On this subject I do want to mention one thing that all WIFI users and remote for that matter need to know if they don't already know it. Just being helpful.
Setting the situation first. Two trains running at once. Switch to ALL ENGINES. All Engines appears in purple title bar to let yo you know you are in All Engines mode. Both trains are currently running 25. Just picked it out of a hat. I move the dial up to 35. Both trains speed up to 35. We're good.
Then comes the issue. I switch from ALL to individual engine number 1. I slow it down to 20. I then switch over to individual engine number 2. The speed dial is set at 20, it's still circling at 35. The change I made selectively to engine 1 has changed the speed dial system wide on the speedometer. So even thought 2 is now individually selected, changing 1 to 20 SMPH has changed the speedometer WIFI wide. Why am I telling you this? Just thought you might want to know in case you had never seen it before. What should be happening is what happens when you run trains individually to begin with. You change from 1 to 2, 1 is moving at 25, 2 is moving at 45, when you change from 1 to 2 or back the other way, the ECS screen depicts what is happening with that engine, not both engines. ALL ENGINES mode, yes, individual mode, no. Once you switch from ALL to individual, all bets are off. Changing 1 to 20 miles per hour should have had no affect on 2's speedometer. But, it appears, since you are leaving ALL and going back to Individual, the programming isn't coded to see that, and even though you changed the speed of 1 engine, individually, it affects 2's speedometer, but not speed.
Confused, tune in next week for "what drunk techie created the Engine Name Change feature".
