bigbonce Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 hopefully a simple question. I was thinking of purchasing a secondhand select to do no more than address some old point decoders. Once addressed I will be using another controller to operate the points. Does the select have programming outputs similar to the elite. Thankyou for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregd99 Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 why would you want the select to set the addresses in some decoders? The select has very limited capabilities. The other controller that you have should be able to set an address in nmra compliant accessory decoders. is there some more background to this question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 Gregd99 said: why would you want the select to set the addresses in some decoders? The select has very limited capabilities. The other controller that you have should be able to set an address in nmra compliant accessory decoders. is there some more background to this question? hi greg your comment is interesting. I have the prodigy advance which will address accessory decoders using I believe cv513. However looking at other forums and indeed contacting the prodigy tech (guage++++) it is not always possible to address the early hornby decoders. Yes I agree all things should be nmra compliant but this is simply not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregd99 Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I do remember some discussion about problems programming the 8216 decoders early on. A solution, I seem to recall, was to connect them to a powered track and then quickly swap them to a programming track and program them. a similar question has been asked at https://www.hornby.com/forums/hornby-forums/hornby-digital/1138/#post11109 is it worth mucking around or better to invest in some new ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Gregd99 said: I do remember some discussion about problems programming the 8216 decoders early on. A solution, I seem to recall, was to connect them to a powered track and then quickly swap them to a programming track and program them. a similar question has been asked at https://www.hornby.com/forums/hornby-forums/hornby-digital/1138/#post11109 is it worth mucking around or better to invest in some new ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 I would love to buy some new decoders but the number I would need to buy would make it unrealistic. Doing a full circle hence my suggestion to purchase a secondhand select assuming that it is capable of addressing early decoders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 bigbonce said: I would love to buy some new decoders but the number I would need to buy would make it unrealistic. Doing a full circle hence my suggestion to purchase a secondhand select assuming that it is capable of addressing early decoders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 bigbonce said: I would love to buy some new decoders but the number I would need to buy would make it unrealistic. Doing a full circle hence my suggestion to purchase a secondhand select assuming that it is capable of addressing early decoders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 Once the old decoders are addressed then hopefully all dcc controllers should be able to recognize decoder addresses Inc prodigy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbonce Posted December 31, 2012 Author Share Posted December 31, 2012 bigbonce said: Once the old decoders are addressed then hopefully all dcc controllers should be able to recognize decoder addresses Inc prodigy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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