Ian,

Have you actually had to do this? You're the second person to have
said this in two days but I've never had any reports of problems
until now.

Regards,

Andrew

--- In sprog-dcc@..., Ian Birchenough
<ian.birchenough@...> wrote:
>
> Phil,
> some motors don't draw enough current for the ACK to be detected by
> SPROG/Decoder Pro. You may need to hold the wheels or some such to
> increase the current draw.
> Ian
>
>
>
> In message <f9skl0+kst9@...>, Phil Dunlop
> <pndunlop@...> writes
> >
> >Good Day all;
> >
> >I have the above set up, and just recently, like yesterday, tried
for
> >the first time to program a digitrax TF-4 function only decoder.
> >What a dismal failure, sigh.
> >
> >I've never had a problem with this set up before, done Tsunami,
> >Loksound, Soundtraxx, and Digitrax motor control decoders, all with
> >no problem.
> >
> >Don't know if it's a sprog or decoderpro problem. I tried direct to
> >decoder connections, and various resistor ideas trying to simulate
a
> >motor load, etc. Decoderpro reports an error "stopping due to no
> >locomotive detected". It's pretty adamant about it. It's not the
> >decoder, I was able to program one on a digitrax programming track.
> >Did Digitrax design a decoder that only works on their system in
> >spite of what the instructions say? Am I doing something stupid??
> >Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> >Cheers
> >phil d
> >
> >
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> Ian Birchenough
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