spitfire
Active Member
I just found this out today and thought I'd pass it along. If you have the Digitrax Zephyr and are having trouble programming your Broadway Limited Imports loco, there's a reason and it's NOT YOU!
The Zephyr (unlike the other 2 Digitrax systems) doesn't program on the main. The power output to the prog. track is limited and doesn't put out enough juice for the BLI chip. So basically, if you have a Zephyr you can't program BLI engines. I had written to BLI before I bought my Zephyr and they told me it would be fine. Guess they were wrong.
The nice DCC expert at the LHS walked me through all of this, and we ended up using their Empire Builder to program the engine. Obviously we didn't get into the CVs, just gave it a 4-digit address, and then tested with the Zephyr to make sure it could acquire the address, which it could.
Another thing he told me, and you can take this for what it's worth, is that BLI decoders are not NMRA-compliant.
Val
The Zephyr (unlike the other 2 Digitrax systems) doesn't program on the main. The power output to the prog. track is limited and doesn't put out enough juice for the BLI chip. So basically, if you have a Zephyr you can't program BLI engines. I had written to BLI before I bought my Zephyr and they told me it would be fine. Guess they were wrong.
The nice DCC expert at the LHS walked me through all of this, and we ended up using their Empire Builder to program the engine. Obviously we didn't get into the CVs, just gave it a 4-digit address, and then tested with the Zephyr to make sure it could acquire the address, which it could.
Another thing he told me, and you can take this for what it's worth, is that BLI decoders are not NMRA-compliant.
Val