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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Digitization of G1206 from Piko - part 2

 

In my previous post, I forgot to address the issue of setting a DCC address (pun intended) to the Piko G1206 VFLI. 

Since it is a Piko decoder, it cannot be programmed by the ESU LokProgrammer. The documentation for the Piko decoder and sound module can be found here:

  • Piko 56403 SmartDecoder 4.1 - link
  • Piko 56192 SoundModule - link

I tried to use the ECoS to read the address from CV1, but it would return an error:


For the Piko decoder, it is important to use the program track:



To set the address to 744, I will use this previous post:
  • Compute CVs 17 & 18 with https://www.digitrax.com/support/cv/calculators/
  • Write CV17 = 194 and CV18 = 232 (previous values were 195 & 233)
  • Write CV 29 = 46 (previous value was 14)

With the documentation, I only need to adjust the icons as follow: