Loksound Decoder Reset, what doesn't reset?

[BigDaddy]

Specifically Loksound decoders.

If you program a sound package with a lokprogrammer and later do a decoder reset, the sound doesn't go away, or at least I don't think it does.  It certainly doesn't on a preprogramed sound decoder.

If you change engine sounds, horns, volumes and do a reset, does any of that revert back to a default setting or is only the engine parameters?

[gmpullman]

The "Sound Project" stays intact. The variable CVs get reset to their defaults which are listed in the description of the particular Sound Project.

There were some instances in early versions of both Lokprogrammer software and decoder volatile and non-volatile memory but as far as I'm aware of these have been taken care of in later upgrades.

Read about it here:

http://www.sbs4dcc.com/tutorialstipstricks/loadingesusoundfiles.html

 

BigDaddy

If you change engine sounds, horns, volumes and do a reset, does any of that revert back to a default setting or is only the engine parameters?

Those are pretty much all fit into CV 48. The CV 48 default varies with different Sound Projects.

Good Luck, Ed

[peahrens]

Ed makes an important point; i.e., a particular LokSound "project" many times has CV default settings that are not the typical ones shown in the (Select, in my case) decoder manual.  So print out the online description for the particular file.

And if you have a LokProgrammer, you can adjust your CVs to your liking and then "save" your modified "project" in your PC, and also write that modified project to your loco's decoder as the base case.  I recall there are check boxes when writing to the decoder that come into play.  Then if you need to do a "reset" it will reset the decoder CVs to your tweaked CVs such as address, sound settings, etc.  As an example, if you had set the address to 1234 in the modified file you wrote to the decoder, when resetting you would not need to change address from the usual default of 3 to 1234.  Hopefully I have described this accurately, as I have not yet bothered with this smart approach.

Not sure how Decoder Pro works in this respect as I seldom use it.

I have not gotten that organized, so I just take notes in a file for each loco and if needing to reset the loco, then need to adjust the CVs as needed (address, sound, lights, etc).  Either way works, but the important thing is to at least keep notes on your settings.