Firstly a thank you to (Martyn) aka
viaEstrecha
for donating the following as in the below picture.
Incidentally, if anyone else should be having a clearout/tidyup/ of surplus no longer required decoders, please do get in touch.
Rest assured they will be put to good use, one of the ideas for 2024 is provide information on DCC Decoders, to Members of the G Scale Society and via the Local Area Groups.
Various test rigs have been setup to provide a simple a solution with a hands on approach, to the identification of a decoder, its CV's and the values of said CV's.
In conjunction with the above, is the rewrite of the existing decoder manuals to include the most up to date information available.
Sample front cover of the new document for the LGB Small Onboard Decoder, there is no documentation specifically for this decoder, the information available as such is lumped together into an existing document.
As a visual teaching aid, new decoder templates have been created, to allow experimentation of READing and WRITing CV's.
Whilst they are not always necessary to program a decoder, they do provide a visual indication of what is happening.
Some parts of the documentation, decoder templates, have been written for the following decoders, 55021, 55022, 55027, 55028, 55029, LGB Onboard, Small, Large and Sound.
Many more hours of proofreading and double checking the contents of both the documentation and decoder templates, a thank you also to the Management of Massoth who permitted the necessary changes to the Massoth Service Tool Software to allow the creation of non Massoth decoder templates.
Whilst I am not a fan of Marklin per se, they have made some changes to the mDT3 software which has a least made life a little easier with the CV's on the 55029 decoder, although the program itself is still lacking in its ability to be a useful Tool for DCC, which is not overly surprising as Marklin is actively promoting mfx!
