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Thanks, Bill.

The new Walther's turntable is outstanding.  Very easy to set up and all automatic.

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Rock Island E6 A-A units all 'fixed'.

Since the two units were made in different years with one having an old QSI decoder and the other a Paragon 2 decoder the two engines were not starting at the same 'rate'.

I contacted the BLI tech and he gave me some good advice to reset the decoder as the decoder may be locked via CV 16.

I removed the shell so I could access the glass reed switch located at the front of the decoder. 

One is suppose to be able to reset it while the shell is on but I wasn't sure where the switch was, exactly.

I small magnet is provided and put on the switch and then power is turned on and the decoder will say 'reset'.

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The front coupler screw goes into the top shell so it has to be removed to remove the shell from the frame.

Then there are the usual 4 tabs on the sides to spread apart for removal.

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The glass reed switch at the front of the decoder.

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The magnet.

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Not sure if CV 16 was locked or I failed to notice to 'click' on the 'Quantum Speed Table' (user defined speed table) located above the 'speed table'.   

I could have done some more 'experimenting' to find the 'problem' but, everything was now working and I didn't want to 'screw it up'.

I put a 'log curve' in the QSI decoder and that worked.



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Both engines now run at the same speed.

One small problem is, when stopping, the Paragon 2 engine takes a couple more seconds to completely stop; I can 'live' with that!

I tried 2 adjustments.

1) Disabled 'motor loading' on the Paragon 2 but nada.

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2) same results on reducing 'motor load power filter' to 1 from 6.

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Function 5 turned on the Mars light.

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