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Davidbross:
I cannot tell if this means I’m running 1.05 or 1.00 on my lm4sg.

The screen has both numbers.

If I need to update, what is the process? 

faithie999:

--- Quote from: G8B4Life on October 07, 2023, 07:24:59 PM ---I didn't forget or just stop; I couldn't get the HC to charge yesterday (or right now for that matter) to see what's happening. Apparently on a nice sunny Spring day it's too cold in here.

- Tim

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Tim--you're more experienced with RailPro than I am, but when this has happened to me in the past, I have opened the HC, removed the (rechargeable) batteries, and charged them in a nicad/nihm wall charger.  then I reinstalled them and the HC came back to life.  I'm wondering if there is something in the HC software that prevents charging when the batteries are profoundly dead.

Ken

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: Davidbross on October 08, 2023, 08:31:11 AM ---I cannot tell if this means I’m running 1.05 or 1.00 on my lm4sg.
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Your picture shows that the software version (SW1061) is revision 1.05, which is the latest. The software is what can be user upgraded so this is the revision number to watch. The other revision number (1.00) following the IVT1760 is the hardware revision. You can't update the hardware so don't pay much attention to the hardware revision.

Forgot to add as you don't need to update this time but for future reference, I did do an illustrated guide many moons ago on Downloading, Copying and Updating which is in the User Guides section (https://rpug.pdc.ca/index.php/topic,466.0.html) but it is a little out of date; not in the process but some of the button text has changed since it was written. The RailPro Assistant and HC manuals also cover updating.


--- Quote from: faithie999 on October 08, 2023, 05:01:43 PM ---Tim--you're more experienced with RailPro than I am, but when this has happened to me in the past, I have opened the HC, removed the (rechargeable) batteries, and charged them in a nicad/nihm wall charger.  then I reinstalled them and the HC came back to life.  I'm wondering if there is something in the HC software that prevents charging when the batteries are profoundly dead.

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Ken, I don't think there's anything that prevents the HC from charging when the batteries are profoundly dead but there is code that prevents charging when the temperature is under or over a certain temperature. The batteries in the HC-2b are still ok and I got it to charge later that day once the place had warmed up a bit.  Now the batteries in my original HC-2 are a different matter, profoundly dead might be an understatement. Coming up to 10 years old and after several hours on charge the screen still wouldn't come up.

- Tim

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