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Have a charterhouse southern 903 loco which has traction tyres on the front pair of driven wheels and one has come off. It looks ok but appreciate advice on the easiest way to get it back on. Not having any luck turning the wheels and trying to feed it back on as you can't get to the top of the wheel as the body is in the way.

Thanks for the info. Think its sorted now. Was using the old original Elite manual and couldn't get it to work that way.

Have an Elite v 1.45 and can't get the function keys to work. Following the manual I select the loco and confirm it, then press function key which brings up F00 - F009 on the top line with the loco number underneath it but pressing any number does nothing. The manual shows the address on the top line with the function no. underneath but mine is the other way around

I have a soundtraxx PTB 100 program booster which does my other sound locos fine. Just having no luck reading or changing CV's on this Broadway decoder.Most reads give XXX now and if a write works it is nothing like the value i enter. After more testing today i think the decoder is faulty and going to organise a return unless you think the powerpax might solve the issue but be a pain to have to buy just for this one loco geoff

Just purchased a used sound loco which was advertised as a Broadcom Limited but the paperwork that came with it is all Athern. Been trying to read CV8 in both Railmaster and on the Elite to work out what it is and can't get a reliable read The last 5 reads have shown 24,74, XXX, 78, 255 Have cleaned the programming track and can read other locos fine. There is no brand name on it except made in China. Any idea why reading CV8 would give such strange answers.

appreciate the help know which way to go now

it's my 1st attempt at trying to add a loco with a longer than two digit no. In the railmaster loco list screen the drop down box to add a loco only goes to 99 Have manually entered a 3 digit no. in the field and also added the rest of the info and it seems to have added it ok and when i exit it shows in the loco list screen on the right hand side but can't make it move Trying to read cv1 with the elite after this just shows xxx How should a add a 3 or 4 digit loco

Thanks guys for the help. Never bothered updating the select as this is only the 2nd time I've used it in the more than 10 years I've had it and also I'm in Australia so didn't know what the postage costs would be back to the UK. Only fired it up because I have a mix of about 20 R8216 & R8247 and 10 of these are now spares but each of them seems to have some sort of problem and as I wasn't having any luck reprogramming them with the Elite thought I'd try the Select. Will give it another go using address 61 Want to sort them out as they were over $100 each so it's a lot of $ just sitting there Sent an email to customer service re upgrading the Select and repairing the bad decoders and asking if there's anyone in Australia who may be able to do it

I have an issue with a R8216 decoder in that port one didn't seem to be working so did a reset in REG mode to CV8 and this stopped all the ports working. Tried reprogramming multiple times with the elite and also tried thru Railmaster but no luck. Did the precharge first and also have a program track booster Then tried programming it with my select and this got some of the ports working but when I connect the R8216 back to the elite I can't get any ports to work. Connect it back to the select and it works The select shows number 10 then 30 on startup and I programmed the decoder at 60 as per manual So should the elite recognize the addresses I have programmed in with the select.

Have two locos which i cant read CV 8 or 1 on One is a green Charterhouse Southern 903 and the other is a blue city of Bristol 46237 they give a jerk on the program track when i try and read them but can only get XXX Can't see any R series no.s on either how can i find out what brand of decoder they are so i can reset and whether they 8 pin or 21 pin etc

thanks for the help.It was the blue route lines i was having trouble with but i noticed that it was a point nearby that was putting the wrong direction on the point track pieces and i solved it by speading the points further apart

i originally did my track layout with some crossovers with a point symbol for each point. it looked a bit messy and i thought that as i was going to have both points in the crossover changing together and both connected to the same port i should only need 1 symbol for each crossover. so i deleted 1 point symbol on each crossover. The crossovers are working fine and line up with the direction arrow on the track plan but where i deleted the point symbol on each crossover RM is still showing a direction arrow for each deleted point but it's the wrong way round. went into the design screen and removed the points with the bad arrows,and saved the plan.Opened it up again and put the point track pieces back without point symbols and saved it.Was hoping this would stop RM showing the incorrect direction arrrow but in my main screen it is still showing them which gets a bit confusing.. know i can just remove the point track piece from the crossover to stop it showing but would rather have the track plan looking right. Is there a way i can stop these arrows showing up Using hornby elite with RM & 8247 decoders

ok thanks for the advice

yes i do have the 4 amp supply and thanks for your response and the info in the link. Makes it easy to understand how to set them up.

been having some problems with the hornby R8216 & 8247 Accessory decoders and looking to try DCC concepts ads-8sx but this model not listed in the railmaster drop down box for decoder programming. there are some oher DCC concept models listed but not this particular one.. does this mean it won't work in railmaster or can i work around it