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Jimk33:
I think there is a bug in the lighting effect Dual Double Strobe.  First, it has only one option as to which color wire to control, but if it is dual shouldn't it have two?  Second, it doesn't work even on that one wire.

I don't believe the problem is with the wiring in my locomotive.  I recently replaced the incandescent lights on my SD70MAC with LEDs, and wired the ditch lights and dual headlights independently so I would have flexibility in lighting effects.  I have been trying all of the different light effects available to see which I prefer and all of the lights work and are controlled fine by other light effects, but not with Dual Double Strobe.

This is obviously a first world problem, and trivial in the overall scheme of things, but I just wanted to give someone a heads up about what I discovered.

Regards,
JIm

Josephbw:
Hi Jim, double check your polarity going to your LED. I've wired them up backwards a few times, easy to do.  :-[

Joe

G8B4Life:
There's no bug that I can see, the effect is set to use 2 wires so why your only seeing one is a bit of a mystery; normally you should only see one wire if the effect is set to on/off.

I'd try these steps again. I'm sure you would have checked when you did it but we'll do it again. I'm assuming that your wiring is all ok as you stated other effects all worked ok.
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Try again making sure the button type is set to Light and you set the Name to the dual double strobe effect.

Make sure you've got the correct wires selected, it's easy to set the wires to the colours of the other plug, eg, you want the green wire on the 9 pin plug but you accidentally set it to the green wire of the 6 pin plug. This is assuming you have nothing connected to the wires on the other plug.

If it still makes no difference, try setting it up with the other controller, eg, if this issue is happening when your trying to set it up with the HC-2b try setting it up with HC Sim.

Re-download the effect and try again; it's highly unlikely that the effect is corrupted but you never know.

- Tim

Jimk33:
Joe,
The LED's work using other light effects, so I'm sure the problem is not wiring.  Each of the lights works with an on/off function so I know I have the correct wire colors.

Tim,
I now have a different problem, and I'm questioning whether I saw that I thought I saw.  I can't select Dual double strobe as a light effect because it is not on the on the button set up screen.  I have downloaded it from the server, and copied it to this LM-3S as well as another LM-3S and an LM-3, but it doesn't show up as a choice on this particular module.  It works on others.  I have copied it to this module several times and the loading bar appears to work with no error messages, but it doesn't show up as a selection choice.  The instructions say the distance to the product must be less than 2 feet, which I can't do with my C-1, but I tried it with the HC-2b 2 inches away and it didn't work.  The C-1  I have loaded it on another LM-3S and an LM-3

Could this module have become corrupted so that it won't load new effect?

Jim

William Brillinger:

--- Quote ---I now have a different problem, and I'm questioning whether I saw that I thought I saw.  I can't select Dual double strobe as a light effect because it is not on the on the button set up screen.  I have downloaded it from the server, and copied it to this LM-3S as well as another LM-3S and an LM-3, but it doesn't show up as a choice on this particular module.  It works on others. 
--- End quote ---

Jim, is the module's software up to date?

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