You're welcome! Blunami can make this even easier. You can set up the features with dropdowns and sliders on your phone or tablet. You can then read back the CVs on the Blunami App and input these values for your Tsunami2 decoders. Learn more: soundtraxx.com/blunami
Another in the series of helpfull hints.The best thing about your Decoders is the logical structure of the CVs.Other Brands are not as easy to work with.Many don't realise there is no need to use or buy other programming tools.These can be helpfull,but the ability to adjust and tune with any? DCC system,won me over.cheers.
Nice description. You can certainly manually add up the bit weights of a binary number to convert to a decimal number. Just simple addition. But it isn't quite so easy to convert a decimal number to binary manually. You have to subtract the highest bit weight that the number might contain and that means there is a "1" in the binary's number's position for that bit weight. You keep repeating this until you have no remainder. For example, let's say CV29 contains decimal 34. What is that in binary? Well, you can see it can't have bit 7 (128) or bit 6 (64) in it. But it can have 32. So bit 5 is "1". 34-32 = 2 remaining. So bit 1 is "1" and there is no number value left so we are done. The binary number is 0010 0010. Then you have to look at the chart for CV29 for the meaning and in this case Bit 5 = 1 means extended address, bit 4 = 0 means 3 point speed table, bit 2 = 0 means alternate power source disabled (no DC running) bit 1 = 1 means 28/128 speed step enabled, and bit 0 = 0 means normal direction. BUT what about bit 3? For CV29, bits 6 and 7 are "reserved" but there is no description for bit 3 except its value shown as "0". So it is easy to look at the descriptive list SoundTraxx shows for CV 29 and think it starts at the top with bit 0 (and it does) and continues in order not knowing that bit 3 is skipped in the description. So you have to be careful to 1) make sure you know the least significant bit is, by most conventions, "Bit 0" so the eight bits are "bits 0 to bit 7) AND make sure that you are accurate regarding the bit position you are dealing with. If you do this sort of thing a lot, it will become second nature. But you can also get a calculator that does "base conversion" that will convert between binary and decimal (and some other bases) very easily. (I have a background that includes software development and I use a calculator with that feature all the time.) Just one more notion that might make this easier for some. Binary is "Base 2" and Decimal is "Base 10" and there are any number of other number bases. They all work the same. We are just simply accustomed to "Base 10" where we have the 1's digit, 10's digit, 100's digit and so forth. So the decimal system also has "weighted" digits. No different than the binary's 1's, 2's, 4's, 8's etc. digits. (Note: you can also find all manner of online base number conversion calculators and the calculator I find in my Windows 10 can be set to the "programmer" style and do conversions for you.)
@@SoundtraxxDCC By the way, I just finished installing SoundTraxx everything into four older InterMountain HO F7 diesels. First rate DCC and sound products. On the "what about bit 3" comment, that really goes to technical writing style. The list of CV29 descriptions is actually a key (like on a map where a key may show what types of lines represent what types of roads).. But it also looks like a list and if somebody reads it as a list, they will think the items are contiguous. Yes., "0" as shown in the byte gets defined as reserved elsewhere in the diesel technical reference manual (also acting as a "key"). And I notice in the byte diagram used for this video they are just greyed out. There is probably an unambiguous way, without the text getting ponderous or too "busy", to have the key also be a complete list. But don't get me wrong. I think SoundTraxx writes excellent technical manuals and product packaging headers and included technical sheets. Your typical reader ranges from neophyte to highly advanced and that's challenging. I can see a lot of time and thought has gone into your technical writing.
Hi McKenzie, your new hairstyle is gorgeous:-) I think you may be making this a bit complicated? FOr CV 29 , just go to the table on page 16 and see the decimal value...easy peazy! I deal with this stuff on real signalling so I know what it's like , but talking bit's and bytes frighten's people off. Or ...you can watch my new series "CV Shortcuts" ..all about getting the best out of your Soundtraxx decoders! Cheers from Down under, Gregg.
This works for Tsunami2 and Econami decoders. Tsunami2 has more ranges than Econami does though so use the correct manual for the decoder you have. Original Tsunami and SoundCar just have CV 8 to 8.
Way back in the 70's I had to learn machine code. I really don't wish to do it again for each sound company. Why don't you make software that we can plug-in to a programing track that comes with the software and have that software do the work. I know you have been making these little chips for awhile, why not make it simple?
Our decoders do not need a special programmer they can work with any command station that you may have. If we made a special programmer you would have to spend more money to buy it and it would only work for our brand decoders. You do not have to learn code to use our decoders. Our manuals walk you through the steps of setting up a each CV. Simple addition is the most math you will have to do to set up a CV. And we are always here to help you! support@soundtraxx.com. Use can also use JMRI to set up our decoders, but if you get unwanted results out of JMRI we cannot support JMRI and we will tell you which CVs to reset to fix the problem.
