There's got to be an EASY way!

The NCE system has a function to configure a decoder without going to C:

Press 'program'

scroll to either 'use program track' or 'program on main'

press config

follow prompts to set both short and long addresses and to activate an address.

 

PRR Man; thanks for your response. I tried your formula on my NCE system with no results; I then tried it on a newly installed NCE system again I was unable to program the engine's long address. I was able to do the 55 recall and succeeded in restoring the factory 3333 long address. There must be another method of programing CV-17 and CV-18 for the long address.

It took a while to find this in my notes but here is how to determine the values of CV17 and CV18.

#1032/256 = 4+

4 + 192 = 196 and 196 goes into CV17.

 

#1032 -(4 x 256) = 8 and 8 goes into CV18.

 

There you have it.  Good luck.

Cheers,

Ed

Nighttrain,

 

Which engine are you trying to change the address on? PRR man's method should work fine. I've done a bunch of addresses with the NCE ssytem.

 

Since you were able to reset the engine with 55 tells me it's an older model. All the new stuff will reset with 8. I've upgraded the files in a bunch of HO SD70 ACE's that open all the CV's, That's probably why the cv29 didn't work.

 

Ralph

I assumed Mr. Train was programming a PS3 engine, since it is the only MTH system that is DCC compatible. Is that the case?

 

Yes. It would have to be a PS3. The first HO SD70's didn't have the expanded CV's. A lot of people complained and MTH did open the rest of the CV's. I have updated many of them and now they have all the CV's. So now they reset just like any other DCC engines with CV 8.

Though I'm not aware of these problems in O scale engines as their PS3 came out after the the up grades.

Yes. It would have to be a PS3. The first HO SD70's didn't have the expanded CV's. A lot of people complained and MTH did open the rest of the CV's. I have updated many of them and now they have all the CV's. So now they reset just like any other DCC engines with CV 8.

Though I'm not aware of these problems in O scale engines as their PS3 came out after the the up grades.