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Recovering Engines

David MinarikDavid MinarikOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I ran into an interesting scenario last night while doing a bit of housekeeping with a local clubs remotes.  The group has 3 club owned engines and many members bring in engines from home to run.  Their remotes were getting cluttered and confusing.  I suggested that the keep their 3 engines IDed at 99, 98, 97 and let the engines from home have the lower numbers.  This way it would be easy to clear them out at a later date.  I reset the two remotes they had.  I then added all three engines to the first remote and re-IDed them to 99,98,97.  No problem....on to the second remote.  The first two engines added fine.  The 3rd would not add.  Signal was 10.  Engine was still in the first remote and worked fine.  I finally did a recover on the second remote and it allowed me to add the 3rd engine.

I guess my question is concerning the relationship between the ID in the engine and the ID in the remote.  Can anyone explain?

I am also curious about the ID that gets put outside of the 1-99 range.  How/Why does it happen?  Is the range from 100 to 127? (I got that number from 7 bits required for 99 at 1100011  and 7 bits at 1111111 = 127)

Any insight would be great!

 

Thank you,

Dave

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Barry BroskowitzBarry BroskowitzOGR Forum Member MEMORIALIZED MEMBER

Dave & Gregg,

If an engine ends up in the inactive list with ID 99 there's no way out period. The only way is with the recover engine feature.  (then a re-add. ) This bug has been around for a while. 

I suspect that the issue has to with the fact that an engine in the remote that's ID# 99 is actually #100 in the engine. This is the only occurrence of a 3-digit engine ID# in the DCS world. That makes it a somewhat unique situation.

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G GreggOGR Forum Member

Hi David... I'm not sure how I stumbled on this, but it was at least 5 years ago... I've posted about it many times and when mentioning available IDs on a dcs remote I always said 1 to 98..   Anyway the only good thing about it is..... It gives you an idea on how the recover engine feature works and  Yes you would think MTH might have mentioned what can happen with ID 99.... .

 

Barry BroskowitzBarry BroskowitzOGR Forum Member MEMORIALIZED MEMBER

David,

In thinking about this further, I recall that one cannot directly add an engine to a remote if the engine has DCS ID# 99. You need to do exactly what you did, i.e., Recover the engine, add it to the remote and then change its ID# to 99.

You should also be aware that TMCC lashups can only use DCS ID#s of 90 - 99. This corresponds to TMCC TR#s of 0 - 9.

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