Can't input engine addresses over 90 after DCS 4.0 upgrade

[4kitties]

Hi all,

Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere but I haven't been able to find it in a search.

I have a recent set of Lionel F7's that I changed the address of to 96, the first 2 digits of the road number. All was fine running it with DCS 3.1. After I did the 4.0 upgrade, when I tried to access the engine, the reported address had changed to 300 (!) which of course makes no sense, so I deleted the engine and went to add it back in. But I can't enter an address over 90 now. I thought maybe the 4.01 bug fix about engine 99 missing from the engine list might help, so I upgraded to 4.01. I still have the problem. Any thoughts? Do I need to reset the remote?

Joel

[dbaker48]

Joel,

Good News, Bad News....

Good News, is that with 4.0, you can do TMCC Lash-ups!  That is really a significant improvement.  I have found it easier to to the TMCC lash-up with DCS, than what it is with TMCC and the Cab-1.  Of course doing the Lash-Up with Legacy is extremely easy as well. 

Bad News, as a result of being able to do the lash-ups, engine id #'s 90 through 99 are now reserved for doing Lash-Ups.  You can NOT program an engine id in that range.  Initially that bugged me too, but found a way around it.  In my case I use the last 2 digits of the cab number, 4294, I had to change and use the first 2 digits for that engine. 

[4kitties]

Don, thanks so much for your reply.  I was thinking about doing what you did, using the last 2 digits, but I hesitated because finding and flipping the run/program switch on these engines is a pain while they're on the track.  (And there's more than one because there are 3 powered units.)  Ah well, as my dad used to say, that's life in the putty knife factory.  I will do what I have to do and be happy that I can still control these engines with DCS.  I do have a CAB-1 but I like to do the startup/shutdown with the DCS remote because there are startup and shutdown keys.  I do everything else with the CAB-1.

Thanks again,

Joel