I have 20 MRC ad360 mobile decoders to program and install to control my atlas momentary turnouts. I am using the MRC prodigy advance2 system. Has anyone had any experience using these.
the manual for the system says to treat the decoders as mobile decoders with loco addresses. Somehow after trial and error i managed to get one to operate and I will be darned if I can remember what I did to make it work. I have attempted 2 more decoders and on 3 separate turnouts with absolutely no luck.
Here are several methods i have tried with no luck:
A when it prompts me for the address, enter the address and push enter button until end.
B when it prompts me for the address, enter the address, proceed to the accy and address again and push enter button
until end.
C when it prompts me for the address, enter the address and push enter button, proceed to the accy and address again then go to CV# and enter 513 and push enter button until end.
Why CV513? I know it is not meant for the AD360 but it was mentioned in the manual right after the AD360 note to treat it as a loco address and not an accessory.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Frustrated and Frozen in ND
Wayne
The Prodigy2 instructions say that the AD360 is to be programmed like a locomotive. This means that you need to program it (give it an address) on a program track. They talk about this in the instructions for the AD360 on page 6 of http://www.modelrectifier.com/resources/dcc/AD360-accessory%20decoder.pdf.
Because it uses loco addresses in the short address range of 1 - 127 (see page 12 of the prodigy instructions http://www.modelrectifier.com/resources/trainSound/0001414.pdf), if you have 20 of them you will use up 20 of the loco short addresses. You need to make sure that you don't use address 3 for any of them, because most people use short address 3 for their locos which they normally run on the long address. I don't know how the Prodigy deals with consist addresses, but some systems use the short addresses for consists. If the Prodigy does the same thing, then you will have another issue if you assign numbers to the AD360 which is the same as a consist number.
Other DCC systems have a separate range of accessory addresses that are used which don't conflict with the loco short, long, or consist address ranges. You don't need to worry about the CV113 thing because the AD360 does not get addressed that way.