I would strongly suggest that anyone wishing to use the MTH DCS app for conventional control look into setting up a Lionel Powermaster within the app instead of using the app’s native variable voltage control. You will notice a big improvement in voltage range and number of speed steps. Aside from the issue of the voltage jumping to 5.0, there are power quality issues caused by either the app or TIU’s hardware. It is as if voltage is decreased using some kind of signal processing that just keeps chopping the wave frequency. At lower voltages, equipment rattles like it is running on 30 Hz AC. I can’t imagine what 0-5 VAC would look like. But the real dealbreaker is the known latency bug that causes voltage to suddenly surge or drop. MTH has been aware of these issues for some time, along with a slew of other bugs affecting users of the full app’s DCS features, and users of Legacy equipment. There has been talk of fixing these for a while now. But if you haven’t noticed, they have been focused on the DCS explorer and its issues instead. Hopefully this will soon change.
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