[Dr_C2]

Just to explain for anyone following this thread:

Flat4’s reference to lights flickering is a specific and well understood issue when decoders with functioning brake lights are placed on a SSD track where the rms slow-modulates the brake signal on the track packets to implement a basic level of braking adjustment. This is achieved by low frequency turning off then turning on the brakes with a repetition rate of a few Hz. The brake lights follow this sequence and hence are seen to flicker.

This is different from the full 6-bit resolution 50Hz braking which can be achieved when the powerbase encodes a ‘full-resolution’ braking signal into each track data packet. In this case the braking is very smooth and the lights do not flicker.

The latter braking method has been used widely with ICP in car decoders in combination the APB C7042 and, as indicated in my post above, could be implemented with the ARC PRO too if this feature was built into the rms app.

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ps On a separate subject I note the latest slot.it SSD decoder, the SP15d, uses a Nordic microcontroller rather than a Microchip 16F630 microcontroller and so will not be compatible with either ICP v3.3 or v4.0.1.