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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Powering LED's off Track Power (Lighted Car)
« Last post by LVRR1856 on January 21, 2026, 10:31:11 PM »
To keep things even simpler ... I use LEDs with built in resistors, since it's in a caboose, just use to bulbs wired opposite.

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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Different locos, same number?
« Last post by LVRR1856 on January 21, 2026, 10:04:42 PM »
This would defeat the "Load Sharing Technology" used in MU'g locos. They most likely would not be speed matched and eventually damage gears or strip drive shafts etc ...

Once you MU the set, it is stored and always there until you "unlink" them. Just have to select the lead or any of them and the MU should show up.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Different locos, same number?
« Last post by nodcc4me on January 21, 2026, 08:48:18 PM »
Each LM can have only one name at a time, but if you consist the locomotives, you can control all of them with any one of them and switch to a different one at will.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Different locos, same number?
« Last post by zr1rob on January 21, 2026, 05:15:13 PM »
Can I assign the same loco ID to multiple locos?

eg. say an ABA set of F units, all programmed to a single Icon on the HC?
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Deleted files, but still no Free Storage
« Last post by zr1rob on January 21, 2026, 05:04:33 PM »
Many thanks ... it never occurred to me that free storage meant in the handheld.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Deleted files, but still no Free Storage
« Last post by CPRail on January 21, 2026, 02:09:03 PM »
I may be wrong, but I think the Free Storage means the amount of space on the HC, not the LM. Try deleting the files from the HC. The ULT series of sound files eat up a TON of room. My HC regularly shows around 2-3% of Free Storage and I'm constantly having to juggle which files are needed for which loco install.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Deleted files, but still no Free Storage
« Last post by zr1rob on January 21, 2026, 01:32:54 PM »
showing Free Storage at 1%, but deleted many files from several locos. Like "Sanding" which takes several minutes to delete. But still no Free memory to download new files.

Is there something that has to be done to release the memory locked up in those deleted files?  Thanks
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Turn off Ditch Lights with Ditch Finish On Option?
« Last post by KB02 on January 20, 2026, 06:23:38 PM »
Got it all set and working the way I want it. Looks like I was barking up the right tree with my work around, just the wrong branch. ;) 
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Powering LED's off Track Power (Lighted Car)
« Last post by KB02 on January 20, 2026, 05:30:36 PM »
Thanks! Yes, I already have a 1k resistor in place. My knowledge of electronics is limited once you get into resistors and capacitors and what not.

What I have so far is pretty basic: Wipers on the wheels going up to the LED's with a resistor on one side. It should, in theory, work great on a regular ole DC layout. That's not what I've got though, and I do know that.

Thanks for the responses! Now I have a better idea what I need to do.
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: Powering LED's off Track Power (Lighted Car)
« Last post by gregeusa on January 20, 2026, 10:31:10 AM »
you can buy the entire full wave bridge in a single small package to save space... it will have the ~ and + and - markings

the cap might help flicker, if it's big enough (mfd capacity)

but remember you need to calculate a current limiting resistor since the LEDs by each run at about 3.6 volts and 20 ma max...

Since you say it works at least in one direction, you may have that done already.

So the full wave bridge in this case is used to provide a continuous output polarity, regardless of track polarity.
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