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<p>[quote user="7j43k"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">tstage</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Do you know if there are programming issues when using a TCS Wow with a TCS keep-alive?</p> <p> </p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>You can put a teeny little switch on the bottom of the tender.  A simple on-off (might be better to use a two-pole, to disconnect BOTH leads).  One (or two) of the wires to the "keep-alive" then goes through that switch.  When it's switched off, you should be able to program on the program track.</p> <p>I put a "keep-alive" in a gas-electric (which REALLY needed it!).  It was an all-Soundtraxx install.  For whatever reason, I didn't put "the switch" in.  I found that I could Program on the Main.  Very easily.  BUT.  You have to keep really good records, because you can't query the decoder.  So if you change a CV, you darn well better write it down.  On that gas-electric, I changed LOTS of CV's.  And wrote them all down.  And have them in a file, should I need them.</p> <p>So, programming on the main is not the end of the world.  But it's nice not to HAVE to do it.</p> <p>Hence, the switch recommendation.</p> <p> </p> <p>Ed</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>This is a better idea.</p>
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