Acela lights with Legacy 1.51

hold down AUX2 for three seconds and see if you find it there.

You only get the lightbulbs in Legacy Acela mode. Different commands are sent for Legacy. Your settings are correct with the +/- shown.

Thanks guys,

jon, thanks for your reply. Yes it was in TMCC mode.  Just put it in Legacy Acela mode and the lightbulb icons are back

 Thanks again

Regards

Nick 

Question  - holding  down AUX2 3 sec toggles TMCC - Legacy Modes?

 

 Just put it in Legacy Acela mode and the lightbulb icons are back

 

Hi Zig, I did not try holding AUX 2. I went into the info menu for the Acela and changed the control type from TMCC to Legacy. I think when I upgraded the Legacy remote firmware the Acela settings defaulted back to TMCC mode.

 

I'll try the AUX 2 and see if that changes the control mode and report back.

 

Nick

Ok had some time this morning to play around with this.

AUX 2 does not toggle between Acela TMCC and Acela Legacy option. It turns the headlights on and off.

As jon says Acela TMCC mode is the correct one. Acela Legacy mode must be for the new Legacy Acela that was droped from the catalog?

 

Have to say that this is a nice train once you get the ir couplers lined up correctly.

Fun to take apart as I got this secondhand I fixed the pantographs as they had come out of their slots and one of couplers needed fixing. 

Little lad loves it. We were running his two favourite trains the Hiawatha and the Acela today.

Regards

 

Nick

I was under the impression you were already in legacy mode.

AUX2 just gives you more icons to turn on or off different lights.

No holding AUX2 for three seconds opens the new 1.5 lighting menu

The light menu is only available for Legacy Locos. 

 I thought at first that Legacy mode was available for the Acela. i.e. there was a more advanced board in the Acela that jon had been able to take advantage of to give Legacy control.

 

 When I was playing around in v1.3 and the Acela mode it defaulted to Legacy mode which had light control for the cars. At that time the Acela had not arrived. When it arrived I had upgraded to v1.51. This defaulted to TMCC mode. With out the light control icons. This caused a bit of confusion on my part.

 In Legacy mode you can't control a TMCC Acela.

 

Regards

Nick