JerryG posted:Nice job Gary. Your stuff is always good. I just got one last week. I need practice with it. Seem to have problems switching between engines to control speed. I have three LCP's, two on the same track. My Santa Fe FT is slightly slower than the CSX, which is on the same track. I have to vary the speed on one of them every ten minutes or so. In your next review, can you show us how to do this in the most economical way using the new universal remote? Could just be me not being used to it....
Jerry
Jerry, If I understand you right your question is to do with using the remote to adjust the speed of multiple engines, switching between them. Now as a disclaimer, I haven't tested this out to see how well it works, but I'm going off the instructions in the manual. The remote is designed to keep the engines moving at whatever speed they were last set to, until you intentionally change the speeds. Heres how it works; Say you have engine #1 with the dial at the 2 O'clock position, and engine #2 at the 2 O'clock position. You are controlling engine #2 and increase it's speed up to 4 O'clock on the throttle. Now you want to raise the speed of engine #1 as well. To do this you need to press the '1' button to switch control to the #1 engine. Note that the throttle dial is still at the 4 O'clock position right now.
To change the speed of engine #1 you first have to lower the throttle down to match whatever speed the engine is moving at, in this case, 2 O'clock. Once the dial has been turned to the speed the engine was moving at, it will function normally to control the engine's speed and direction.
if engine #1 was set to a higher setting than #2, you would have to raise the dial up to that speed before gaining control of the engine. Whatever the difference in speeds, the trick is to turn the dial to the point the engine was last set to, and once you do that, it will act normally.
JGL
