PS3 upgrade information.

Marty,

I have several older subway Loco sound ps1 motor cars. How hard will it be to go from a Loco sound power car to a ps3? I would love the fact that we could do a lash up of 3 motor cars and 15 non powered ones. That will be awesome. All working together and not against one another.

Not hard, easier than PS-1 since Loco sounds had motors with flywheels,  G

Can someone tell me which chain file to load? There are four files when I unzipped the chain file. Do I load them all?

If so, Is there a certain order?

I'm not getting control of the lights and believe it's in the chain files? I already loaded the Evo sound file. It runs but the lights won't respond to soft keys.

There are some lights that don't light? The rear markers are on in reverse but the front don't light at all for example.

I loaded all four chain files in the order they appeared. It worked so I am good.

Joe,

You did some extra work, since the Chain File .zip archive is meant to be the actual input to the Loader Program.

While you can do as you did and, after unzipping the .zip file archive, load each file in turn, it's much easier to simply select the .zip file as the input file. The Loader Program will then unzip the archive and automatically process each file, one after the other.

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The loader didn't see the whole ES44Evo file until I in-zipped it and saved that again to my key chain drive. I thought I had to in-zip all of it.

Maybe it's my old computer not showing it?

You unzip the downloaded file, it gives you a sound file and the chain files in another ZIP file.  Then you point the loader at those to upload to the engine, you don't unpack the second ZIP file.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

You unzip the downloaded file, it gives you a sound file and the chain files in another ZIP file.  Then you point the loader at those to upload to the engine, you don't unpack the second ZIP file.

I got that much from what Barry had posted John.

When I used my old computer to load the files, it did not show them? I had to go upstairs and unzip them for that computer to recognize them on that removable drive card.

I can only guess that it's a older windows XP or 7  issue?

I have now found extra charging lights are on unused pins #7 & #9 for rear ditch lights. 

GRJ, you were right. The ps3 board does seem to take care of the sequence of the charging lights.

God, I hate my voice!

Joe,

I installed pins w/wires in slots 7/9 for rear ditch lites on a NS Heritage Reading SD70 (20-20271-1)

using a PS3 diesel upgrade board and for some reason they do not work.  Am going to troubleshoot tomorrow.

bruce

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Engineer-Joe posted:

gunrunnerjohn posted:

You unzip the downloaded file, it gives you a sound file and the chain files in another ZIP file.  Then you point the loader at those to upload to the engine, you don't unpack the second ZIP file.

I got that much from what Barry had posted John.

When I used my old computer to load the files, it did not show them? I had to go upstairs and unzip them for that computer to recognize them on that removable drive card.

I can only guess that it's a older windows XP or 7  issue?

You don't have to know what's inside the second ZIP, it's all taken care of by the loader.  You just point at it when you upload the FLASH code and it automagically unpacks it and loads them all.  I've loaded them on Win7 and Win10 the same way.  Everything here is Win10 now, but when I was using Win7 they worked the same way.

bruce benzie posted:

Joe,

I installed pins w/wires in slots 7/9 for rear ditch lites on a NS Heritage Reading SD70 (20-20271-1)

using a PS3 diesel upgrade board and for some reason they do not work.  Am going to troubleshoot tomorrow.

bruce

They have to be enabled in the sound file and/or chain file in order to function.  I suspect that some configurations don't have them enabled.

One thing I did note while loading each chain file, is that the lighting functions kept changing. The beacon did not work at first. Then, it came on with a load. Finally, it is back off again when the final chain file loaded.

 I swapped the marker lights while searching for why the green front ones didn't light? When I plugged them into the rear socket they lit. So I put the red into the front socket and they lit too? I think they're just messing with me!!! ????

 So Bruce, it seems important to find a soundfile and chain file that supports the functions you're after as GRJ stated.

and finally, another video....

Remember that if your wiring the LEDs yourself, they are reversed from PS2 I believe. The assigned pins are hot and the return to ground is thru the purple.

However smoke and couplers are different!!

I'm planning to use a PS3 upgrade kit to replace a bad PS2 board on a Premier Triplex. When I right click on the associated upgrade sound file, I get a screen full of symbols. No zip file. When I click on a PS3 sound file for a later Triplex engine, I get a zip file to save. But MTH instructions say  I should only use PS2 files. What am I dong wrong?

PS3 steam upgrade kit uses PS2 sound files, with no zip file.

I just picked an early PS/2 model, this one: https://mthtrains.com/20-3069-1

I clicked on the Upgrade link and got this file.

pr_triplex_011129c_final_3v.mth

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong, but you may have to right click and select "save as" to get it properly.

The PS/3 Steam Upgrade uses the 3V PS/2 files, do NOT load the chain files.

That is the same upgrade that I'm trying to save. When I right click on yoor upgrade link I don't get an option to save as

When I tried to save your file, it saved it as a PDF. 

Bob, I use Firefox.  If I left click on GRJ's link, I get another window with the option to save it.

Bob, you need to configure your browser for file types.  What are you using.  I tried it with Firefox, Chrome, and Microsoft EDGE, all of them were able to download the file properly by just right clicking on it and saving the link as...