A & B output terminal's

[fire-bot]

Sent by Daniel Gunderson ([email protected]). Created by fire.

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Hello, Dan here,

I am running DCC-EX on a MEGA with the DCC-EX board and it is working well. However, I have seen “hints” in various places that seem to imply that the A & B outputs can both be configured to supply track power.

I have no use for a programing track, as I use an ESU Lok programmer. I have two power districts’, each having its own independent short circuit protection. So, if both of these ports can be so configured

please supply me the location(s) where I might find this information. My current install used your Windows installer. However, as I have 35 years’ experience as a professional programmer, I will be creating a new install using

Platform io within Microsoft Visual Studio.

I thank you for your time.

[email protected]

[pmantoine]

The default configuration of the EX-CommandStation is:

<= A MAIN>
<= B PROG>

...so you need only change this to:

<= A MAIN>
<= B MAIN>

Which can be done easily in the mySetup.h configuration file with the addition of these lines:

SETUP("<= A MAIN >");
SETUP("<= B MAIN >");

Note that these modes can be changed dynamically at any time while the CS is running as well, should you ever need to do so. Any output can be MAIN, PROG, DC, and with the next release AUTO (autoreverseing) and INV as well.

We would love to benefit from your professional experience by having you contribute to development if that's something you'd be interested to do as you become familiar with the code base. Our team has over 100 years of professional software development experience, but as we are all volunteers with busy personal lives, any additional help would be greatly appreciated!!