When I got back into model railroading a year and a half ago, I had taken an aproximate 15 year break from it. My break was life demanding so I really had no choice. When I was in it before, JMRI was new and just coming out. I told myself back then that I do not want to get that technological with my modeling. Fats forward to a year and a half ago, I said the same thing. Then I decided to download JMRI and use the Operations Pro part of it to help keep inventory and look into the car routing. Fast forward again, today, I have just started using the Decoder Pro part of it. WOW, what have I been waiting for?!?!?! I have been figuring it out as I go and let me tell you, IF, you are into DCC, have a computer that will hook up to your DCC system you really should look into JMRI Decoder Pro.
Yes, it can look daunting at first, and I still have a lot to learn about it. However, it just saved me in a huge way. How so? Well, I 2 of my Intermountain Railway ET44AC GEVOS were dead in the water. I was working on turning the Back EMF off so that I could speed match and consist other brands of locomotives together. These particular locomotives have the ESU decoders in them. One is sound equipped and one is not. After making some changes and not getting the results I wanted, I reset the decoders. This was all through my Digitrax system. After doing that, I had nothing out of them. They did not move, light up or nothing.
I used JMRI to get them back on track and now I can move forward and I am getting all my locomotives on a similar baseline for the power curves then I will do my fine tuning.
Episode 70 I will be discussing my struggles in programming up to this point and what I have learned about JMRI and hopefully if you have been delyaing using it, you will give it try.
Tune in to Episode 70 which will be out 8/31/2024 Unless your a premium supporter through www.Patreon.com/ModelRailroadTalk. then the episode will be out by 8/20/2024.
Stay Tuned asI will be implementing something new to the podcast that a listener suggested. A lot is in store for Model Railroad Talk....So let's keep the Model Railroad Revolution going.
"Keep Your Train on the Tracks!"
Gary
Host
Model Railroad Talk
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