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Cannot load sound files from HC-2b to LM-3S
robert.h.giffin:
William,
I will admit that it was the smoked decoder that was the 'last straw'. I did nothing but solder a speaker to the two brown wires and it smoked. I was excited up until that point and I was hoping to hear the sound through this bigger speaker as the other one I was using was one of those puny iPhone speakers (on the other decoder), and then it all came crashing down. Everything up until that point was simply annoying, frustrating enough but easy enough to surmount. Can't fix a toasted, melted device, and I even carefully stepped up to this point.
TwinStar:
As big of a RailPro fan as I am I can understand Robert's frustration. The whole Ring file update/transfer process SUCKS. It is about as user friendly as a .gov website. RailPro may be the best thing ever but if the end user can't update a simple file easily and quickly then the allure of this 'advanced' system will fade. Our current interface reminds me of the green screen Mac I had back in third grade. This segment of RailPro has got to be fixed ASAP.
robert.h.giffin:
I just went down and put an ohm meter on the terminals on ALL FOUR of the speakers I have (2 iPhone and 2 SoundTraxx). They all do the same thing, peg the meter, indicating a short in the speaker. Not being much of an audio guy I don't know if this is normal (I'll Google it maybe), however, one of those speakers was the little iPhone speaker I was using on the first decoder and it was working fine. It pegged the meter as well. And two of these are new in package (one of each type).
This tells me that the speaker was not defective (I have yet to test the audio performance on it because I really have nothing to test it with). And, as stated in the email I sent to Ring Support, it melted the decoder right at the area where those two brown wires enter the 6-pin connector. I initially thought I had put the soldering iron on something and it was burning because I couldn't believe that I smoked a decoder, the reason it took a little longer to yank the locomotive off the tracks.
It's good and melted, for sure. It will be on the way back the Ring Engineering tomorrow or the next day.
KPack:
Sounds like a short in the amp. I had one module that melted like that, but I can't remember the circumstances because it was years ago. Sent it back to Ring and they sent a new one free of charge. You didn't solder the speaker wire while the locomotive was on the tracks, right?
Regardless, issues like this sometimes pop up, but on the whole the system is relatively bulletproof. I've had my share of issues with both hardware and software, but after Ring and I identify the problem we get it resolved and it makes the product better in the end. I'm pretty sure he made me a beta tester because I was a magnet for issues.
I do agree that the downloads take way too long for how big they are. I would love this aspect of railpro to change. It really should be a matter of a few seconds and not tens of minutes. But I'm not a software engineer so I'm have no idea what is involved in making this change.
Kevin
robert.h.giffin:
No, I soldered the speaker to the 6-pin harness, plugged that harness into the decoder, and then plugged the decoder into the locomotive with an 8-9 pin adapter harness. Then I placed the locomotive on the track.
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