Help needed to give an address to a decoder with Massoth 1210Z

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I am trying to help a friend whose loco has lost its address. This is in H0 and he uses an Intellibox central (the first one). The loc is a Fleischmann equipped with a Zimo MX 64.
I have myself a Fleischmann Twin central and I first tried another loc, which works ok, but, since I found nowhere how to either reset to factory values or to give it an address, I have taken my Massoth station, reduced the ohms to 4 and a voltage of 20 V and tried with the working loc, which responded and ran. Now I'm trying to reprogramm the decoder but I'm stuck, because I have forgotten how to programm. Can I do both manoeuvres on programming and track and the other one?
Please forgive me if I am asking about a question that has already been asked. I went through the different subjects on this forum, starting with page 74 but I gave up after page 57.
Can anyone help?
 
railaddict said:
I am trying to help a friend whose loco has lost its address. This is in H0 and he uses an Intellibox central (the first one). The loc is a Fleischmann equipped with a Zimo MX 64.
I have myself a Fleischmann Twin central and I first tried another loc, which works ok, but, since I found nowhere how to either reset to factory values or to give it an address, I have taken my Massoth station, reduced the ohms to 4 and a voltage of 20 V and tried with the working loc, which responded and ran. Now I'm trying to reprogramm the decoder but I'm stuck, because I have forgotten how to programm. Can I do both manoeuvres on programming and track and the other one?
Please forgive me if I am asking about a question that has already been asked. I went through the different subjects on this forum, starting with page 74 but I gave up after page 57.
Can anyone help?
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Hello Railaddict - Yes, you connect two wires from your Massoth DCC command station's Programming Output Terminals located on the back of your unit to a separate programming track. With your Navigator, you can both Read a CV and Write a CV. Address is CV1.......Read it for its current setting. You can program CV1 to any number up to 127. If you want to use a long address up to four digits for the address, commonly done by hobbyists who use the engine number printed on the locomotive, then you'll first need to change CV29 Bit 5 to 32. Read CV29 to see what it's currently set at, usually CV29=6 for 28 Speed Steps and Digital and Analog Operation. If it's that, then you'd add 32 to 6 and set CV29=38 for use of a Long Address. Then you'll need to use a CV Calculator to get the settings to put into CV17 and CV18 to set up the long address. You can find CV calculators at various Websites.......I use the Excel version found at TrainLi.com's Website.
 
railaddict said:
I am trying to help a friend whose loco has lost its address. This is in H0 and he uses an Intellibox central (the first one). The loc is a Fleischmann equipped with a Zimo MX 64.
I have myself a Fleischmann Twin central and I first tried another loc, which works ok, but, since I found nowhere how to either reset to factory values or to give it an address, I have taken my Massoth station, reduced the ohms to 4 and a voltage of 20 V and tried with the working loc, which responded and ran. Now I'm trying to reprogramm the decoder but I'm stuck, because I have forgotten how to programm. Can I do both manoeuvres on programming and track and the other one?
Please forgive me if I am asking about a question that has already been asked. I went through the different subjects on this forum, starting with page 74 but I gave up after page 57.
Can anyone help?
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How are you doing trying to Read and Write the CVs?
 
Not very far, I'm afraid. I've done it all again ending with M1 or M2 but it doesn't work, and I was absent the whole morning so I didn't go any further. My central was upgraded last year from 2,62 to 2,65 and my Navigator, from 1,90 to 2,10 with the help of Muns. I bought a locomotive after the upgrade, but did not change the address so I don't know if it is my software that is wrong somewhere or me being nuts with digital. I find that Massoth do not sufficiently explain the simple things from the beginning and the chapter dedicated to read/write is very short for what reading concerns. They assume the loc you put on the track has already an address (factory setting:3).
But above all I must admit I'm not someone with a logic, I have similar problems with my smartphone.
Thanks for all your efforts. I shall keep you posted on the evolution.
 
After having tried to go back to factory settings without success, I finally paid a visit to someone I know who deals with digital. He has tried all possible ways to recognize the decoder but it gave no respond and was considered "dead". The loc is now equipped with a new ESU Lok Pilot and works fine again.
I feared this might be the issue but I took the challenge, with your help, to give the Zimo decoder a new address, and it did not work.
Thanks again for your patience and your advice which I will keep for future potential address changes.
 
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