A written roster certainly helps if you are religious with updating it. I’ll renumber an engines address if I get sloppy with the “housekeeping” or delete & re-add.
Until you get that extra remote, engines will just populate the first open space in the remote. If you get sloppy & delete an engine from the remote, for some reason, maybe you just took it off the layout, you leave an opening in your remote, not your roster. The next new engine added jumps into that open slot on the remote. If at some point the deleted engine gets placed on the layout while you still have the engine that replaced it on the layout, an address conflict will exist. It’s just like you don’t have 2 ball players on a team with the same number. As other forum members have admitted to, it only gets worse with more engines & remotes.🙄
I keep a roster, new engine addresses 1-50, after created, lash-ups get renumbered 99-51, in descending order. I don’t own 50 engines but that’s just my system. Although I have 4 remotes, 2 as spares, I keep 2 active & try to keep them consistent to each other.
Don’t get frustrated, just have fun!
