Re: MTH TIU

[Scott A Smiley <sc.smiley@juno.com>]

This seems to me that you had a successful conversation with them and
fixed the problems.  That sounds great.

Scott

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:08:39 -0500 "Ira Schneider"
<ira_schneider@Iname.com> writes:
> I took the club's TIU and handheld remote controls home and 
> experimented with them on my home layout.
> The results were not promising.
> 
> I called MTH service and talked to a technician.  She walked me 
> through the following:
> 
> 1. One of the handheld's could not communicate with the TIU at all.  
> Apparently, it is a common problem
>     for the RF board to come loose from rough handling.  She told me 
> how to open the remote controller
>     and reseat the board.  It now works properly.
> 
> 2. The TIU functioned normally on 3 of the 4 channels - one channel 
> appeared to pass the transformer
>      voltage through but not the DCS signals.  Of course, this 
> channel was connected to track 2 (our
>      "primary" MTH ProtoSound 2 track).  She had me do a DCS reset 
> function, which restored the
>      functionality.  She thinks that someone turned of the DCS 
> function for this channel.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the TIU and remotes are now working correctly. 
>  One set of batteries died while
> I was testing the handheld, so that might have contributed to the 
> erratic operation.  I will bring the
> TIU and remotes back the next time we set up the club layout.
> 
> By the way, I noticed at one recent show that one of the MTH 
> handhelds lost all
> data (i.e. track and engine programming).  She said the only way 
> that could happen is if someone
> invoked the Remote Reset function.  Please be careful with the MTH 
> remote controllers.  Do not
> invoke any reset function or any DCS or TIU configuration function 
> unless you are SURE you
> know what effect that function has on the system.  I have programmed 
> both controllers to include
> 2 definitions for track 2 - conventional and command mode.  You can 
> add your own engines
> (and delete them if you want), and change any parameters for your 
> engines.  You can also define
> ps.  However, please don't modify any system settings.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Ira
> 
> 
> 
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