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DS74 Weirdness

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Posted by BigDaddy on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 5:34 PM

You question hasn't gotten much traction.  I'm pretty sure Group.io has a digitrax group that might be able to help. 

Not a digitrax guy but I used to live in an area where power surges and outages were routine.  I don't know if you devices are rebootable or reset to default, but that is my first thought.

Henry

COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

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DS74 Weirdness
Posted by PennsyLou on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 8:34 AM

Hoping to get help from the Forum before trying to escalate this to Digitrax.

I have 3 DS74s installed on the layout, controlling Tortoise machines.  These are configured to switch #s 101-104, 105-108, and 109-112 respectively.  All have been operating without any issues for a couple of months.  Yesterday I come down to the layout and the lights on the 2nd and 3rd DS74s are blinking quickly in alterternate (red-green) fashion, and the two controllers no longer operate the machines - it does not appear that they are being recognized by the loconet, or are accessable for programming or reset via the main control (I'm using a DT400 throttle).  The first DS74 is still operating just fine.

Any ideas out there as to what the problem might be and how to fix?

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