Hi everyone,

I am a DCC newby and finally figured how to wire up my Proto 2000 SD-9 to my ESU Loksound Select Decoder. After making some programming adjustments and running the locomotive through it's functions for an hour, I ran over a misaligned turnout which appears to have scrambled my decoder. Now it continues to make some noises when track power is on but the throttle and functions are not functioning. I am trying to do a reset of the CV's using CV8 = 8 for ESU, but I cannot write the reset to the decoder in progrmming on the main mode or program mode.

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Hello I've found myself with a somewhat peculiar issue. 

I have two locos that I equipped with ESU Loksound decoders.  I used the ESU Lokprogrammer to do the initial loading of sounds and set up as it works quite fast. 

However for subsequent editing of speed curves etc I use Decoder Pro.  One of the tools I also use is the Bachrus Speedo, which allows me to measure the speed of each loco in scale MPH and get a graph of a loco. This is then used against a reference 'curve' to match the subject loco to.