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My personal experience with DCS remotes is that they sometimes struggle to communicate with the TIU, especially on a large layout in an electrically noisy train show environment.  (Note: My experience is limited to pre-generation "L" TIU's.)  Tethering the remote to the TIU with a "phone cord" wrought an improvement in reliability, but doing so limits control to only one operator.  

 

I want to know if it's possible to use two remotes simultaneously in tethered mode.  I can think of two ways to do this:

(1) Wire two phone cords in parallel to a single RJ10 phone connector

(2) Use two remotes, each tethered to a different TIU.  Both TIU's are connected to the layout in "super mode."  

 

Is the first choice viable? If not, what would I give up in convenience by switching to super mode?  I've never used super mode, and I'm not really sure how it works.

I would love to know if anyone else on the forum has tried this, and how it worked for them.  Thanks!

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 I ve tried option  1.. the tiu will only communicate with 1 remote even though 2 are wired in parallel.  Don't ask how the tiu knows there's another remote tethered but it does.

 

Option 2....You really wouldn't have to put the tiu in super mode  because a tethered remote will only talk to the tiu it's tethered to. When the tiu is tethered no other remotes can communicate with it.

 

If you want to use super mode each tiu must have a different ID and both remotes must have both tiu added and set to super,  Engines must have same ID in both remotes.  Now you can operate anywhere on the layout with any engine with either remote. 

Ted,

   Gregg is giving you the correct skinny, it seems only the 1st HHR plugged into the system will activate, the 2nd is always negated some how, the MTH engineers must have a block of some kind if the signal is split, I tried one time to fool the system also.

Can't understand just why the MTH engineers set this up this say, but they did.

PCRR/Dave

I agree, that's a shame, I was hoping a parallel connection would be the solution.

 

Getting back to Gregg's response... can you have two TIU's connected to a layout and NOT in Super Mode?  As I said, I've never used it, and in fact right now I only have one TIU.  My inquiry relates more to a public display type of setup.  

 

Thanks and keep 'em coming!

Originally Posted by Ted Sowirka:

I agree, that's a shame, I was hoping a parallel connection would be the solution.

 

Getting back to Gregg's response... can you have two TIU's connected to a layout and NOT in Super Mode?  As I said, I've never used it, and in fact right now I only have one TIU.  My inquiry relates more to a public display type of setup.  

 

Thanks and keep 'em coming!

  Can you have 2 tiu connected to a layout and not in super?

 

If you're running different loops sure you can. Yes

 

  You could have a tiu for each loop. providing each tiu has it's own ID nimber .(address) Moving from tiu zone  to another tiu with a different ID can be done using the "read"  but takes forever.    so  Yes  but ...

 

You could have 2 tiu with the same address providing each had the telephone cable tethered. Yes. but  not on the same track.

 

Can you have 2 tiu with the same address and no tether NO.

 

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