Are some PS2 5v boards "Locked"

I wonder if a low battery could do this to the 5 volt boards?

I see that you can communicate a start-up. Maybe affects the loading? Where's G.....

I've never heard of a locked board, I suspect it's something else.  You can't load a file into an engine that has been factory reset, it must have an ID assigned.

Make me wonder if 5 volt files are still actually available.  

John,

You can't load a file into an engine that has been factory reset, it must have an ID assigned.

Are you sure about that?

Every PS2 or PS3 always has an engine number in its board's memory. New engines come with an ID# of "1" right from the factory. New boards are the same. If that wasn't the case, DCS couldn't add a new engine.

Wen you add an engine to a DCS Remote, whatever DCS ID# is assigned in the remote is incremented by +1 and goes in the engine's memory.

In summary:

• A DCS engine comes from the factory with an engine number of "1"
• A DCS engine Utah's ben added to a DCS Remote has an engine ID# equal to its "DCS ID# + 1".

The DCS App works the same way to add engines as does the DCS Remote.

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I struggle to do anything with engines that have dead batteries. I'm thinking that although the system should be able to talk to it with the power on the rails, it can't change anything or maybe even read the board's memory?

 I don't know about the 5 volts as I didn't have any. My first one just arrived and..... the battery's dead. Well very low anyways. I think I'll be swapping it out. It tried to power up and the smoke motor comes on but no sounds. I'm charging a replacement battery to test. It acts like it's locked. So I'll be gaining some new experience soon.

What do you have for a track signal?

Barry Broskowitz posted:

Are you sure about that?

No, I'm remembering some operation that wouldn't work with a factory reset engine, obviously I'm just remembering wrong.

So you can load and operate this board in DCS, but when you go to load a sound file it can't?  What specific error screen do you get?  Do you have red to red and black to black out of TIU?   Is it just this board that won't respond?  G

It's the TIU!!!!

The engine had address #15 and I was able to edit the name and address. I tested signal strength - 10, made sure the connections were Red/Red and Black/Black and operated the engine on the programming track without a problem.

I only have one 5v engine so I put a 3v engine on the program track and tried to load a new 3v sound file - same result. I've attached a photo of the 5v error message.

I connected another Rev L TIU to the programming track and loaded both 5v files without a hitch.

Looks like the TIU works fine in operating mode but won't allow file uploads.

Thanks to you all for helping me through this.

What is the TIU address of one that would not work?  1 or a higher number?  G

I'd even try resetting the tiu. 

Do an auto search for the TIU.  Located on top of your loader.  Click search, then serial port, then auto search for TIU.