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I'm new to this group and since there hasn't been any activity for a week or so, I'm posting this so that the system will send me a digest so that I can get my...
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rhbbob
May 6, 2009 8:21 pm
Greetings ! My superb Sprog has arrived with thanks to Andrew. One of my locos - a Swiss 'Om' beast has a Loksound decoder (according to the manufacturer and...
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Ozemail
ahjay_rej
May 7, 2009 3:17 am
Hi Bob loco lights blinking is usually a symptom of speed steps in decoder set to a different rate than for the controller. Check and see that both decoder and...
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rhbbob
May 7, 2009 9:47 am
Thanks, Richard I am still confused by the differences between the controller and decoder settings. The controller is presumably my Dynamis E-Z which offers me...
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andrew_croslanduk
andrew_crosl...
May 7, 2009 11:27 am
Bob, If you use 128 speed steps (which you should be, really) there's no problem, assuming the decoder supports them, which any modern one should. If you...
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rhbbob
May 7, 2009 2:52 pm
Thanks, Andrew I shall obtain any JMRI upgrade and see if I can find the ESU variant. It is very straight-forward when you get into it, and certainly great fun...
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Peter Brandenburg
peterbranden...
May 7, 2009 5:27 pm
Gentlemen, would those of you who reply to messages please do everyone else a really big favour. DON'T ATTACH ALL OF THE PREVIOUS HISTORY THAT HAS COME WITH...
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Martin Myers
karpetkrafters
May 8, 2009 9:43 pm
Are you sure this is the group your rant was intended? The last digest was 4/25 and that had only one message as did several of the previous digests. Martin...
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rhbbob
May 11, 2009 8:24 pm
A small piece of information for the future. The 'blinking lights' turn out to be flashing LEDs built into the Swiss shunting loco so I stand no chance of...
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grog_polymer
May 12, 2009 10:41 am
Hi Paul, You didn't tell us what you tried. If you just tried reading CVs on a loco decoder or many accessory decoders then were getting timeout errors then I...
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Tony Daly
amdaley28
May 12, 2009 8:42 pm
Hello Everone. Just ordered a Sprog so decided I should get the best advice on it's use from the experts. Glad to be here & regards to all. Tony....
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Bob Blackwell
rc.blackwell
May 13, 2009 11:22 pm
Welcome to the group. I'm sure you'll enjoy your SPROG when it arrives. Although I have a fairly old version I've found it to be one of the most versatile...
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g_schreyer
May 26, 2009 11:28 pm
I just got one in the mail today and tried it out. The experience was underwhelming at best. JMRI 2.5.3 Macintosh PowerBook G4 10.5.7 I installed the USB...
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Andrew Berridge
r5gordini
May 27, 2009 12:00 pm
Hi (name?), Sorry to hear you're a little disillusioned with your SPROG. I have one and find it excellent in nearly every respect. I occasionally have problems...
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Mark Kasprowicz
szczowicz
May 27, 2009 1:05 pm
Your configuration is very similar to mine. I use a 2 Ghz Core 2 duo Macbook on 10.5.6, Seems to me that you have three problems - the DSX, lack of track volts...
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g_schreyer
May 27, 2009 5:41 pm
Some updates I deinstalled the original driver and installed one version back. At least in programming track mode, this one seems to be better. I think that...
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Leon van Perlo
lvperlo
May 27, 2009 5:53 pm
Hi George. and others, I don't have problems with track power. I did have problems with the driver though which I seem to have solved. So for anyone with...
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andrew_croslanduk
andrew_crosl...
May 27, 2009 6:13 pm
Leon, The SPROG has it's own USB PID but uses FTDIs VID and the drivers on the CD are standard FTDI, apart from the VID & PID being changed in the .inf files....
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g_schreyer
May 27, 2009 6:19 pm
I reconfigured the SPROG as a command station and played with a large scale loco on the programming track. I could not drive it far as the track is only 3'...
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andrew_croslanduk
andrew_crosl...
May 27, 2009 6:26 pm
George, Sorry you are having problems. Unfortunately I have no direct experience with MACOS, but I hope the other replies will give you some confidence. As...
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g_schreyer
May 27, 2009 6:35 pm
These are older HO locos and draw more current than the newer stuff. I need 18 volts on the track to get reasonable speed with this stuff. Some of these...
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g_schreyer
May 27, 2009 7:11 pm
I did a search in the manual for "flashing"; and found that it just means that the power is on to the "programming" track. I did not realize that this meant...
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Mark Kasprowicz
szczowicz
May 27, 2009 7:35 pm
George, I really think you need to RTFM across the board. Mark...
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Leon van Perlo
lvperlo
May 27, 2009 9:27 pm
Hi Andrew, ... The problem is not with the drivers supplied on the SPROG disk, however these are older than the latest drivers on the FTDI site, so if you ...
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g_schreyer
May 28, 2009 4:47 am
Been there, done that. The info that I need isn't in the manual - gws...
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andrew_croslanduk
andrew_crosl...
May 28, 2009 8:31 am
... No, the standard drivers will not recognise the SPROG custom PID. I'm wondering if simply supplying the .inf from the SPROG CD is sufficient when the newer...
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Mark Kasprowicz
szczowicz
May 28, 2009 8:33 am
Thatšs true, therešs not much in the way of MACOS support. But it sounds as if youšre almost there anyway apart from the limitation of the voltage. I use...
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g_schreyer
May 28, 2009 5:07 pm
I guess that my expectations exceeded the SPROG's capability. Except for these issues, which are not the SPROG's fault, it seems to do what it is designed to...
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andrew_croslanduk
andrew_crosl...
May 28, 2009 7:45 pm
... The SPROG will turn off the track power in response to an overcurrent situation. Unfortunately the power icon in decoderPro is not updated (I need to...
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Chris Marrable
borg2657
May 28, 2009 7:54 pm
Hello GWS & All Just thought I would add my money's worth. I bought my Sprog only to program with and use the JMRI software. I have a short section of...
