--- In sprog-dcc@..., "andrew_croslanduk"
<andrewcrosland@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick,
>
> Yes, the + command switches the track power as well as the LED.
>
> With the track power on, the PIC pins should be toggling. Your DVM may
> show a voltage about half of what is output by the regulator.
>
> Have you checked the output voltage of the regulator?
>
> There's something strange going on as I'm sure I saw another message
> form you and there's no longer a message 724.
>
> Andrew
>

Back again Andrew,
There is no power at the track or the terminals with LED lit.
I got a reading of 6.8ish from the regulator, is that ok ?

I deleted msg 724 as i needed to edit it and couldn't.

I took a voltage between U5/2 and ground and got 1.5ish volts ( the
junction of R32/R33)is this important ? It's a lot less than the Iv *0.175



Should I bump up the input voltage to 15 or 18 volts ? Its 12.6v at
pres but drops to 11.6v tother side of the Bridge Rectifier, could
things be too low ?

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Ok here is a cutnpaste from JMRI terminal, does "CD false " (Line 828)
give any clues ?

Line 44796 is what it said after I tried to change a CV.

0 apps.Apps INFO - ****** Ignore
messages above this line ******* [main]
125 DecoderPro.DecoderPro INFO - DecoderPro
version 2.4 starts under Java 1.6.0_11 at Thu Feb 12 00:33:49 C
ET 2009 [main]
828 sprog.SerialDriverAdapter INFO - COM1 port opened
at 9600 baud, sees DTR: true RTS: true DSR: true CTS: tr
ue CD: false [main]
44796 sprog.SprogReply ERROR - Unable to get
number from reply: "!O" index: 0 message: "!OP> " [AWT-Event
Queue-0]
48593 jmrit.AbstractIdentify WARN - Stopping due to
error: No locomotive detected (301 [AWT-EventQueue-0]

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Gracias, Patrick