Smudge617
Well-Known Member
I've come across a Life-Like GP20 I forgot I had till I was adding it to JMRI, thought I'd run it for a while as it's been boxed for about 2 years, quick service and off it went, with sound, OK, didn't know that. (no paperwork came with it)
After a while, it stopped, possibly because I was busy seeing what the other F keys would do. It seems I may have put it into "shutdown" mode, a quick internet search and "Startup" is to double tap F6, but it still won't move, lights and sound are there, but no movement, after several hours of trying various other options to reset the decoder, nothing I do works, so, long story short I need to do a hard reset, I've tried the magnet over the reed switch and that also doesn't work, (the only thing that did was to increase/decrease the sound) and believe me I've been trying this for 5 hours now.
The last method I can find to try is "shorting" the reed switch, but I only have a 12v power supply, not 9v, is this too much, or do I need to find another power supply?
Or does anyone know of a different method to do this?
If this doesn't work, does anyone know which decoder is a drop-in replacement for this, sound/non-sound, doesn't matter really
After a while, it stopped, possibly because I was busy seeing what the other F keys would do. It seems I may have put it into "shutdown" mode, a quick internet search and "Startup" is to double tap F6, but it still won't move, lights and sound are there, but no movement, after several hours of trying various other options to reset the decoder, nothing I do works, so, long story short I need to do a hard reset, I've tried the magnet over the reed switch and that also doesn't work, (the only thing that did was to increase/decrease the sound) and believe me I've been trying this for 5 hours now.
The last method I can find to try is "shorting" the reed switch, but I only have a 12v power supply, not 9v, is this too much, or do I need to find another power supply?
Or does anyone know of a different method to do this?
If this doesn't work, does anyone know which decoder is a drop-in replacement for this, sound/non-sound, doesn't matter really