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Hey Everyone,

I wouldn't be surprised if this question has been asked before but, please forgive me as I have been away from O-Scale for the past 3 years now and I am a tad rusty. Anyway, I was wondering how many locomotives can you program into a Legacy and/or TMCC Remote? What I mean by that is, how many individual locomotives can you have programmed with a different Address?

Also, is it possible to have Multiple Remotes and have completely different sets of locomotives programmed to each remote, or does the data transfer over to each one? So for example, if I was to program a Locomotive into a Legacy System, and I put it on Remote A and I programmed it as Cab Address 24. I go and fill in all of the locomotive data such as Roadname, Roadnumber, etc. Would Remote B also have all that same data if I were to search up Cab Address 24 on Remote B, or would Remote B's 24 Slot be a blank slate?

If this does occur, is there a loophole around it so you could have more than whatever number of engines you are allowed max in the remote? If it doesn't, it's safe to assume that if you had two different Address Number 24's on your layout, you still couldn't control each one individually? 

Just one more question in terms of Legacy, can you have multiple 993's hooked up to your 990 or is the limit one?

Again, sorry to ask these questions, I am sure I am not the first to ask something like this either but, I am trying to refresh my mind.

Thank you much.

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Like John says, if you use a Legacy base, any CAB-2 handheld that connects to it will show the same locomotives, as the information is stored in the base.  If you use TMCC and a CAB-1 or Legacy lite and CAB-1L, then no info is stored in the bases.  In all TMCC and Legacy locomotives their ID is stored int he locomotive, so you can have as many locomotives you want with the same ID, just as long as they aren't on the track at the same time.  If they are on the track at the same time, they'll both respond, no matter what the display of the CAB-2 remote says.  As clear as mud yet?

You can, in Legacy, easily have multiple databases stored on a PC.  These can be downloaded to the base fairly quickly using LSU software and WiFi.  I do it quite a bit when doing demos.  I load my demo database when taking my base on the road and then reload my home database when I come back.  Not quite "on the fly" but I can manage more stored engines than the system allows.

A big advantage to this is when I have a group over.  When they add to my database, I can revert back to where it was before they came over.

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sinclair posted:

Like John says, if you use a Legacy base, any CAB-2 handheld that connects to it will show the same locomotives, as the information is stored in the base.  If you use TMCC and a CAB-1 or Legacy lite and CAB-1L, then no info is stored in the bases.  In all TMCC and Legacy locomotives their ID is stored int he locomotive, so you can have as many locomotives you want with the same ID, just as long as they aren't on the track at the same time.  If they are on the track at the same time, they'll both respond, no matter what the display of the CAB-2 remote says.  As clear as mud yet?

I would say so. Thank you very much for the info. I currently own a CAB-2 but never really looked into a CAB-1L. May look into it at some point to have as a backup plan. I am no where near having enough engines to occupy an entire CAB-2 remote just yet but hey, might as well plan ahead just incase that day ever comes.

MartyE posted:

You can, in Legacy, easily have multiple databases stored on a PC.  These can be downloaded to the base fairly quickly using LSU software and WiFi.  I do it quite a bit when doing demos.  I load my demo database when taking my base on the road and then reload my home database when I come back.  Not quite "on the fly" but I can manage more stored engines than the system allows.

A big advantage to this is when I have a group over.  When they add to my database, I can revert back to where it was before they came over.

Huh, never heard of someone ever doing that before. That's pretty neat!

I have been goofing around with my Legacy Remote and skimming through the Manual a bit today and discovered a sorta loophole. The Legacy System has Nine Different "Channels" so if at for example a Train Show, there was two Lionel Legacy equipped layouts nearby, one layout could be on Channel 1 and the other could be on Channel 2 to avoid any interference from one another (It's on Pages 56 & 57 of the Manual). I did an experiment were I programmed an engine on Channel 1, to Address 1. I then switched my Base and Cab-2 Remote to Channel 2 and Address 1's data was empty! I then went back to Channel 1, the data in Address 1 still appeared to be there.

Now obviously, if you go and program a new Address 1 on Channel 2, the Address 1 from Channel 1 is probably going to respond to your commands if it's still on the layout and being powered.

 

Now obviously, it would get kinda of obnoxious switching from channel to channel but, that's one to do it I suppose. 

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I suspect that the data is there.  If what you said were correct, every time you changed channels you'd have to re-load all the information into the base again.  Changing the channel does not give you access to 98 more database entries.  I've had to change channels and my data was always there just as on the previous channel.  Can't say what you saw but my experiences are definitely different.

rboatertoo posted:

That's why I read this thread!!!  

See my first post.  IMO that is probably one of the easier solutions.  I would suspect that you would never have them all on the layout at once and with a little management could use alternated saved databases to work this.  Is it perfect, no.  It's a solution though.

The other solution would be to have your modules on hand and load as you go and manage duplicate addresses.

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