Originally Posted by Gary E:
It's the same bits as in the the last byte of the 3 byte data stream. It repeats every 8.3 msec. When there's no command the bits are all zeros.
Are you talking about the documented TMCC communications from the command base to the locomotive? Is it really as simple as reading that at 9600 baud as a single byte? How about format, start bits, stop bits, etc.?
I'm referring to this table in Lionel 71-2911-250 in reference to the command values.