Pin Outs for a 50-1018 MTH Cable

Paul,

 

It's no just a plain old cable. It has electronic components inline.

Barry,

 

Thanks for your insight, how about a way to check it?

 

Will a RS-232 inline checker show if it is working?

 

I can not get the red light on the TMCC controller to flash on instructions from the TIU.

The cable only works one way, have you tried swapping ends?

Hey GRJ,

 

There are labels on the ends, one is TIU, the other reads TMCC.  Following the labels, and putting the ends in the sockets on the TIU and TMCC I get no indication of communication between units.  The TMCC engine on the test track is silent because it hears the signal from the TMCC Control box.  The engine wakes up with the CAB-1.

I am going down to the club (NCOG) layout in the morning, to try to sort out the problems we are having with DCS signal loss and level.  I can swap the cable and test it on the layout.

 

 

There's another possibility, as well.

 

When adding a TMCC (or Legacy) engine to the DCS Remote, you must enter the number of the TIU to which the Lionel command base is connected via the cable. If you enter the wrong TIU number, you'll not have any communication between the TIU and the command base, and the red LED on the base won't flash. 

Morning Barry,

Will double check that suggestion this morning, when to are testing the three loops at the NCOG club layout.

Thanks, will keep the group posted on the outcome of the testing.

Paul G

AKA ChooChooPaul

Barry may have the answer, I run with one TIU so I don't come up on this issue.