OK, it's time I found out how SUSI connections between loco decoders and decoder equipped smoke units, pantograph control boards, etc. actually function. This enquiry was first prompted by the Massoth pulsed smoke unit installed in the mfx decoder equipped LGB LD1 discussion in the Help forum earlier. I have since purchased a Massoth pantograph control board and am curious just how to install it. The instructions are not clear with regard to programming.
The primary question is whether SUSI commands from the loco decoder are automatically acted on by the device's decoder? Does the SUSI bus override the necessity of device decoder address specific commands? Does the device's DCC decoder address need to be set the same as loco's decoder DCC address for it to function? How does a DCC device, such as a Massoth pulsed smoke unit, interface with mfx loco decoders where a unique address is automatically assigned when the loco registers itself?
Any help understanding these questions will be appreciated.
The primary question is whether SUSI commands from the loco decoder are automatically acted on by the device's decoder? Does the SUSI bus override the necessity of device decoder address specific commands? Does the device's DCC decoder address need to be set the same as loco's decoder DCC address for it to function? How does a DCC device, such as a Massoth pulsed smoke unit, interface with mfx loco decoders where a unique address is automatically assigned when the loco registers itself?
Any help understanding these questions will be appreciated.