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GRJ-

Strongly endorse your request to get the CSM2 "right".

A minor issue related to the CSM2 (although not your specific problem) came to light recently in conversations with Dennis Zander regarding combining the CSM2 and DZ-2001 data wire driver.  Why would you have this situation?  Well before the CSM2 I was driving the DZ-2500s with the DZ-2001.  I had not taken it out of the loop completely after having incorporated the CSM2, and it appeared that they could be used in combination with both driving the switch machines.

My DZ-2001 blew out about 2 years ago and I had just moved the serial wire over to the CSM2.  All was well.  I just recently came back to looking at this problem and discussed it with Dennis.  Regarding the CSM2/DZ-2001 combination, Dennis stated:

"After much discussion with Jon Zahornacky (who designed the Lionel LCS system), it seems that plugging in a CSM2 into the Legacy base causes the date rate to change which screws up the 2001 data line and reception of info by DZ-2500's."

So the advice from Dennis appears to be use either the CSM2 OR the DZ-2001, but not both.  Just a note for those of us using the DZ-2500.

Not sure any "change" is required by the CSM2 to correct this specific problem but points to a different handling of serial data signals from the 2 products.  CSM2 has been solid for me.

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