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CUDA KEN: Success at last! Finally figured out that I had a port conflict. After a lot of time in Windows Control Panel, I reassigned the PR-3 to COM 7. It seems that the Digitrax software tries to install itself on COM3. But if it can't do that, there doesn't seem to be anything in the install menu to alert you to that fact. Typical Digitrax. Their products may be great, but their documentation is written by techies for....other techies! Looking back, I wish I had gone with North Coast Electronics
Thanks to all who replied to my question. I'm currently using Decoder Pro Version 2.2. Set it up as per the excellent JMRI link one of you provided, buit I keep getting an error 306 message: "Timeout talking to command station".Tried both settings on the side of the PR-3, but no luck.My settings are: Serial Port: Com 3; Baud Rate: 57,600; Connection Uses:No flow control; and Command Station Type: PR-3 Standalone Programmer. I'm using the Digitrax power supply. I've even tested
STEVE: Tried all your optuions, but still n.g. Ran the uninstall program and reinstalled the drivers per the instructions. Reset all the preferences in Decoder Pro. Ran the programmer but still got the error message. Ran the "Logging Loconet" function and could see proof the thing is trying to read the decoder. At this point, I'm about to give up on the stand-alone option and try hard-wiring it into Loconet in the next room. In all my years in this hobby, I've never seen such chaos
JEFF: Got the same error message regardless of which switch setting I was using on the PR-3. Steve, in an earlier post, said you didn't need to set those switches because they were bypassed when you set the "preference" tab in Decoder Pro. In any event, the error message is still there. I've never seen anything as frustrating as this mess. Think I'll switch back to DC! John
STEVE: Unplugged and replugged the cable. Still the same message. But from your analysis, I'm starting to think the problem is in my computer and perhaps not in the PR-3. John
I'm having a heck of a time configuring my new Digitrax PR-3 programmer. I want to use it as a stand-alone programmer. But when I try to set it up with Decoder Pro, one of the first choices I'm faced with is the type of layout connection. Decoder Pro gives you a whole list of choices, but nothing seems to work. A call to Digitrax wasn't much help Anyone have any ideas?.
DAVE: Send me your mailing address and I'll be glad to send you a copy of the HO instruction sheet. Regards, John Willmott
Finally got around to building Ambroid's "one in 5000" Combine -Work Caboose. It's not the easiest of the Ambroid kits, but with a lot of work, I think it can be turned into a neat caboose. One question though, is it based on any real prototype? I'm curious about the color scheme, but that coupola cries out for caboose red, even though the rest of the complex roof seems destined for dull black. Any ideas, or perhaps even photos from those of you who have built it.
Glad to hear from some folks modeling that wonderful Southern! I've on my second Sou8thern-related pike, this one modeling the Southern in the WNC mountains in the 1950-1960 era. My first one was 12 x 16, but this one is somewhat smaller, perhaps due to my advancing age. All of my locos (20) carrying Southern colors as does most of my freight and pasenger rolling stock. My biggest problem is finding any fellow model rails in the Greenville, SC area. There's only one hobby shop worthy of the name
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