4.30 lash-up problems

These are known problems with 4.3

the lights can be turned off. The next time you power up everything, the number boards will be flashing again!

 So make new lashups. Turn off (or on) the lights in each engine the way they should be, than hit the FSV softkey to save the lashup state and retain each engine's settings.

The flickering lights issue is corrected in the current 4.31 beta and the smoke issue is on the list to be fixed, as well.

In the mean time, turn on smoke after starting up the lashup..

 I hate 4.3!!!

I'm rewiring my outside layout and having tons of issues. I spent all day on a consist!

How come most of my engines acc/ dec settings are now preset to 130??? That alone is a PITA to fix in each engine. I build lashups and nothing cooperates. Engines are running different speeds??

 I have to fix each engine. Two days later it's a different engine acting up. I had a UP dash 8 going slow last week and now that one is fine?

The remote takes like three minutes to boot? when it comes up finally it has an engine in the active screen I haven't used in a while?

Some won't respond. The system struggles to load/ find engines with this version?

 I truly hope 4.31 comes soon or even I may switch to DCC again.

Now explain this one...?

On a G gauge lashup, the lead engine runs about 1/3 faster than all the rest?

 I spent the whole day rewiring my outdoor layout. I tore an engine apart looking at the tach reader. Nothing wrong. Some engines come up with weird settings? One had a acc rate of 0?

 I built another 7 engine lashup G gauge with a different lead engine and sure enough, the lead engine runs away from the rest??? 

 I'm reloading 4.2. I don't know why I haven't yet.

 Update:

Ok, I'm sure everyone thinks I'm crazy for this one. I went back to 4.2. I now have two engines that run about 1/3 faster than the rest. and probably has nothing to do with 4.3 right?

 One of them is brand new G scale. The other is my custom built SD70ACe. I won't dare try a third engine in the lead because I have no way to get them fixed now. The tach's are working. It seems like they got re-programmed to run too fast????

 That Custom ACe has worked as the lead engine for over a year until I built a new lashup with 4.3.

It just seems weird that it happened twice today.

 I tried deleting and re-building the lashup with 4.2 but the lead engines still run too fast???

 Maybe the good thing will be I can pair up those two engines or maybe not?

I've fixed a lot of issues but this one has got me bitter.

 I hope anyone else on the fence about upgrading to 4.3 does not do it. Wait for the fixes. There maybe good explanations for all this. Maybe my remote is going out?

 What controls the speed of individual engines within a lashup? How in the world could an engine's speed parameters get reprogrammed?

There is no soft key for smoke and I can not turn the smoke feature on via the Hand Held remote. 

The smoke key is #1 on the remote. Works for lash-ups -- at least under 4.20. What I do when setting up a consist is start all of the locomotives individually, turn off their smoke units individually, then build the consist (lash-up) and start the consist. All of the locomotives orient their directions properly and when I hit #1 for smoke they all start smoking. These extra steps relate to the fact we have several TIUs on the club layout and sometimes it seems we get issues with lash-ups in Super TIU mode.