Just followed Ken Remmer's instructions for chipping a kato unit, as used in a Fourdee's Glyn, ive used a digitrax DZ 126, but whenever i turn my multimouse to the first speed step, it's off like the proverbial. My attepts to slow the top speed or get any sort of low speed is impossible, despite trying to adjust CV's 2, 5 or 6 my settings do'nt seem to have much effect.
Could some kind soul please tell me what i am doing wrong ?
Is there any significant speed control and step 2 makes it go even faster, or is it running flat out at the sort of maximum speed you might expect on step 1, or is it just too fast for what you might hope for a slow speed?
To the best of my knowledge all DCC decoders come with factory settings set to benign "flat" settings. The Kato chassis is not particularly "sensitive" and behaves like you'd expect a generic chassis to behave (not the sort of delayed or kangaroo starts you might find in some really old chassis or a tendency to creep even at 0.5 V as with some highly geared coreless motors).
My first thought if there appears to be no control is a wiring error and secondly that something has gone wildly awry in programming and the factory default settings need to be restored.
Have tried resetting to factory default? CV 08.
Hi Pete,
I am another one who went with the DZ126 and had problems with the start speed.
I did a factory reset as Chris sugests and found it made no difference.
I then used my Sprog/DecoderPro system to look at the settings and found that the chip has a default start voltage that is set too high for the Kato chassis/motors.
In the end I gave up with the DZ126 and fitted Lenz Gold Mini's to all of the Kato chassis.
This solved the problem without having to change the default Lenz settings.
After a couple of sessions playing around I have changed the settings in order to reduce the max speed available.
This was done using the speed curve table to initially set a straight line and then taking off the top speed settings until I was happy.
Thanks