I may be trying to do too much here......
I have a ZW-C Controller w/2 Bricks, DCS, TMCC and Legacy.
Everything is working fine, but was re-reading the ZW manual, and discovered I could independently control each of the legs from the ZW controller with the Cab1/Cab2.
I think the problem comes in because I have the DCS in the mix as well. I can and have used repeatedly the Var 1 and Var 2 tracks (DCS) for operating conventional. Then thought IF I programed the ZW with either the CAB1 or CAB2, theoretically I could also be able to control conventional with the CAB1 or Cab2. But it doesn't seem to work. After I programmed the ZW and monitor the voltage output at the ZW, the voltage drops as I would expect. However, measuring the voltage at the track it is a constant 16v.
The DCS TIU must be redistributing the power from the ZW to the TIU Inputs and providing a constant output to the various 4 tracks. Don't know if that makes sense or not.
Next step would be to remove the power (using external TIU pwr supply) from the TIU and see it it works then, but I don't think that would be a reasonable alternative UNLESS the TIU Inputs were all totally disconnected.
Think I should probably just leave well and enough alone and not mess with it Any thoughts?
Sorry for all the rambling, but it "bugs" me to see if I'm doing something wrong, or trying to make something work that wasn't intended to.
Thanks !
