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A question for some of you techies
today i was setting up a new loco with my ecos. on the programming track i set the address to 3110 then moved the loco to the main and tried to run it but had no response, lights not working, basically nothing
i checked out the values of cv1, cv17 and cv18 which read back as 38, 192 and 100 respectively so selecting the address 38 i could then control the loco. using the calculator on this forum it shows 17 and 18 should be 204 and 38.
questions
what should the value of cv1 be.
why are 17 and 18 values different to the calculator
how do you calculate what the values of all 3 cv's should be for any 4 digit address.
i know about setting cv29 bit 5 so i don't think there was an issue with that. and i have succesfully setup most of my other locos with 4 digit adressing with no problem but most of those have either loksound or lenz decoders. This loco and another i tried have bachmann ez 2 function decoders (36-552 i think) cos thats all i had to hand.
Anybody out there care to help me try and understand this issue ?
Cheers
Mark

today i was setting up a new loco with my ecos. on the programming track i set the address to 3110 then moved the loco to the main and tried to run it but had no response, lights not working, basically nothing

i checked out the values of cv1, cv17 and cv18 which read back as 38, 192 and 100 respectively so selecting the address 38 i could then control the loco. using the calculator on this forum it shows 17 and 18 should be 204 and 38.
questions
what should the value of cv1 be.
why are 17 and 18 values different to the calculator
how do you calculate what the values of all 3 cv's should be for any 4 digit address.
i know about setting cv29 bit 5 so i don't think there was an issue with that. and i have succesfully setup most of my other locos with 4 digit adressing with no problem but most of those have either loksound or lenz decoders. This loco and another i tried have bachmann ez 2 function decoders (36-552 i think) cos thats all i had to hand.
Anybody out there care to help me try and understand this issue ?
Cheers
Mark