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As far as the LCS sensor feature of reloading the engine info data by running over the sensor that is.

In a previous thread I thought the feature of loading engine data with the sensor was broken. However I found in my testing that I could not determine it's working by repeatedly clearing the data with LSU (the program on my computer wifi connected) and then running the engine over the sensor. This did not work. Eventually I discovered that if I cleared the data from the CAB2, the data could be restored from running over the sensor track.

The really odd part of this is that clearing the data with LSU on wifi immediately showed the data gone on the CAB 2 display screen. Somewhat false information since the sensor track loading of data either did not work, or did not work because the base thought it was still there. 

SO...is this a BUG? Or an anomaly of the system? Is clearing the info data of an engine on the LSU similar to reloading the base with the computer stored base data on LSU requiring a base power shutdown and power up? I were to persue this method to clear data with LSU and have the sensor function work, would I have to clear engine data on LSU, shut down LSU, reboot LSU, reload engine data, and then try the roll over the sensor to reload engine data? Or some other convoluted sequence of clearing, reloading, rebooting, repowering, procedure?

Any thoughts?

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Chuck,

The behavior is correct, best I can tell from your explanation.  When you use LSU to modify an engine record, a flag is set in the engine record (which is in the base).  This flag prevents the sensor track from modifying the record until the CAB-2 clear engine record is selected.

This prevents the sensor track changing back a record modified by the LSU.  For example, if you change the road name, then run the loco back over the sensor track, you lose your edit.  The flag prevents this from happening.

You can always reset things with the CAB-2.  The reset on the LSU could be used to clear the flag in the base record, but we felt the CAB-2 was the best place to clear the flag after play testing.

I wondered about the LSU manual details on this and page 19 states:

"Clear Engine By clicking the Clear Engine button, you may completely remove an engine definition from your command base and all connected CAB-2 hand-held remotes and any other device which displays the Legacy engine roster. Only the currently visible engine record will be deleted. After clicking this button, a confirming warning message will be displayed. Click Cancel to abort or click OK to remove the engine permantly. This function is equivilent to using the Clear Engine function on your Legacy handheld remote."

This manual probably preceded the sensor track details, but the difference between the two methods of clearing an engine might be noted here in the next manual update.

Thanks again for the excellent response to these operational questions of Lionel products.

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