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I have voltage going though the tiu on the variable 1 input and voltage out to track.  Track gets power and passenger cars light up.  When I put my premier dcs gn steam on the track and turn on the power, I then select the find mth engine and it thinks for awhile and then says engine not on track.  The engine is 4 inches from the tiu connect to power.  The fuse has to be ok as power is going to the track as does the separate fuse on the variable input.  Why can't the handheld find the engine.  It worked fine at Christmas time.  What am I doing wrong.  I reset the handheld too to clear out any thing that might be screwed up.  Help please.  My legacy engines work perfect.  Is having the legacy engine on the track screwing up the program of the dcs engine.

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The tender is sitting on the track now with 18 volts on the track to charge.  I have a mth charger but no place on the tender to plug it into.  I took the shell off and the plug to the battery from the circuit board just plugs the battery to the board and not other place to plug it in.  I thought these engines had plug in holes on the tender floor to charge butt Gn S2 has no hole to plug into so it sits on the track with nothing else on it to charge.

Early ones did not have charge port.  Does the tender have center rail pickups?  If not you need to connect it to the engine to get power to the tender.

 

Plug in an alkaline to see if it work in conventional.  If not, it may have died. 

 

If it runs go back and try to add to dcs or do a recover engine.   G

Those are the add keys for trying to add an engine.  You need to say exactly what the Remote Says after you press a butting.  I don't think there is a "No Signal"

 

THe easiest way to confirm TIU versus engine, is put another engine you know works on the VAR 1 track and try it.  If it adds or is controllable, the issue is with your engine.

 

Also do a conventional test with just a transformer to see if the engine starts up.  If not, there is a problem with the engine.

Ironlake, does the LED inside the TIU light?  If not, there is a power problem.  And, if so, when you power up, how many flashes does it do?  The number of "outs" should equal its ID number in your remote.

 

Per JOe B's comment, if you're not using fixed 1, you must power the TIU through the AUX port.

Last edited by RJR
Originally Posted by ironlake2:

I was wrong I am using fixed 1,  TIU red light blinks twice does that mean it tiu 2, how do I find out what my remotes address is so I assume they should be the same number.

 Yes  A two blinker tiu means  it is tiu #2.  All you have to do right now is add it to the remote with Menu/ System/ tiu setup/ Add tiu . Add tiu #2.  Although the remote should have the same address it's not really required.  It just speeds up communications . 

 

I would add tiu #2 and try the read again, be patient,  You may get the message tiu #1 not found, and hopefully another message TIU#2 found.

 

We can fix the other unwanted tiu  later.   The important thing now is finding Tiu #2. Good luck

ok now I get tiu 1 not found and tiu 2 found.  Read gives me engine out of range.  Cleaned the wheels and rollers on 1st engine and it took and found it and all works ok now.  That took a high learning curve and why I say mth dcs is not for non electrical mined people.  Thank all of you that helped me get it solved.  Somehow my tiu changed from code 1 to code 2 and the remote was still on 2.  I also found the connection for the gn engine charger.  Under the oil fill cap on top of the tender so it was on charger overnight.,

Originally Posted by ironlake2:

ok now I get tiu 1 not found and tiu 2 found.  Read gives me engine out of range.

So far so good,,, The read finds tiu # 2   and you can add an engine good stuff.

 

You can leave things as is and leave your tiu with address #2   You might as well delete TIu #1

 

 

 Menu/ System / Tiu set up / Delete tiu/delete tiu #1

 

Do the read thing again and hopefully you ll get the message TIU #2 found no aiu box connected.   give it a try,,,

 

 

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