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Some question about athearn turbine titan decoder.

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Posted by jrbernier on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:14 PM

  Strange Problem!  Does this happen in STC mode?  If not, then I would check the BEMF value in RTC mode. If you cannot resolve his, I suspect you will need to contact QSI Technical Service.

Jim

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Posted by Railway2 on Monday, May 27, 2013 11:50 PM

 I have done that. I tried many different setting with no result.

But i can't understand why CV3 and CV4 have no affect in RTC mode. Why does it have momentum when values are 0?

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Posted by cacole on Monday, May 27, 2013 10:54 AM

Go to the QSI web site and download the Technical Reference Manual for the Titan decoder.  That should contain detailed instructions for every CV that the decoder supports.

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Posted by Railway2 on Monday, May 27, 2013 12:30 AM

The veranda was without a decoder and i purcaced seperatly the titan decoder and installed it.

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Posted by selector on Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:52 AM

The Titan decoder is the newest QSI variant, and I am not under the impression that Athearn has ever contracted with QSI for providing decoders for their various locomotives.  You might possibly have a Soundtraxx Tsunami variant in your Veranda.  I understand that the Tsunamis provided for other manufacturers, and not sold to individual installers, are stripped down a bit.  In any event, have you tried a hard reset to factory defaults to see if that makes it more adjustable?  You will have to modify the address on your throttle back to "03" to work with it after the reset, as you probably know.  In any event, if you set CV8 to a value of "08", and press the function to restore the decoder to defaults, it may improve things.

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Some question about athearn turbine titan decoder.
Posted by Railway2 on Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:14 AM

Hi,

i have one question about programing the athearn turbine veranda. With
factory default setting it has a  slow acceleration and a very very slow
deceleration especially when it is near at stop speed.It may crawl for at
least 1,5 feet before it stops. Also when i change direction it change
before it stops.
I tried to change cv3 and cv4 but it has no affect on the loco when in RTC
mode. If i put cv 3 and 4 at 0 or at 50 it's the same thing.
How can i adjust it to stop without crawling that much?

Also I hear “white noise” from channel 2 of the decoder. This happens when i recall the engine and even if i mute the sound it does not go away.Only if i pick up the engine one moment from the track it goes away.Is it a bad decoder?

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