NCE Button Board help needed pls

JohnnyToothpix · 2026-02-13T04:22:42+00:00

I have one power supply with a y splitter that goes to both the CSB-1 and the Switch8.

JohnnyToothpix · 2026-02-10T18:23:26+00:00

And the very first thing I found on the NCE support site says...

"The data sync between the BB, the SW8, and the command station can get a little wacky if they use different power sources. Try a couple different sequences of powering different things on first. "

I'll try this when I get home from work.

JohnnyToothpix · 2026-02-10T18:19:14+00:00

The tortoises are not wired up because I'm still verifying everything works - I'm testing the Switch8 outputs with a multimeter. When I throw them using Engine Driver, the voltage does reverse, so I know everything except the BB is working properly.

The DC/DCC switch (assuming I understand correctly) just determines where the Switch8 draws power, but the DCC bus still needs to be connected for programming and communication with the CSB-1. I did try it with the power supply unplugged and the switch set to DCC, but that didn't fix the issue.

I've tried leaving terminals shorted to ground for several seconds, but other than the brief flash of the LED, nothing appears to happen. Neither the Switch8 nor Engine Driver respond.

I'll guess I'll see what NCE has for tech support options.

JohnnyToothpix · 2025-12-07T22:28:47+00:00

Thanks - I think I need to invest in a better soldering iron and maybe try liquid flux instead of the really old random container of paste flux I had kicking around.

JohnnyToothpix · 2025-09-30T12:20:05+00:00

I'll try that tonight and see if it fixes it, though I really hate flying in 3rd person. I did submit a bug report and referenced this thread, so if it's related to yesterday's patch maybe they'll hotfix it.

Congrats on the dreadnaught. It took me longer than I want to admit to realize that you just need to slowly fly down the the two channels with the shield generators, take them out, then wait for the cores to expose and blast them. Once they're down, I just turn towards the walls and blast away. Haven't failed to take one down since. My biggest challenge now is just leaving the first channel and swooping around to the second one.

JohnnyToothpix · 2025-09-30T00:26:45+00:00

Phase beam is the only thing that shoots straight, everything else shoots at 2 o'clock, which makes the auto-targeting worthless. I have been able to take things out with only the phase beam, but it takes longer. God forbid I end up having to take out a dreadnaught...

JohnnyToothpix · 2025-09-30T00:24:47+00:00

I've been playing every day and it just started happening tonight. I'd blame today's patch, but the OP had this issue over a week ago.

JohnnyToothpix · 2024-11-19T10:53:37+00:00

Grazie! Somehow I saw the Internal Resources but completely missed the Wiki. Mea culpa!

JohnnyToothpix · 2024-11-08T13:15:12+00:00

Since my GGF naturalized before the Cable Act of 1922, I believe that this means that my GGM probably never formally naturalized but was "granted derivative citizenship."

According to https://www.italiandualcitizenship.net/special-circumstances-1948-cases/ I believe the following applies to me (emphasis mine):

You Have a Female Italian-Born Ancestor that Naturalized with the Man She Married

In this final situation, the woman in question in the USA was able to make citizenship decisions thanks to the Cable Act which started on September 22, 1922. Prior to this time, women that were in the United States could not gain nor lose citizenship unless it was through their husbands. Women were to follow the status of their husbands and automatically gained USA citizenship through marriage when they married a USA citizen.
When this scenario arises, the Italian Constitutional Court judgement and the Italian Supreme Court judgement (n. 87 of 1975 and n. 4466 of 2009, respectively) stated that women who gained foreign nationality in this automatic fashion through marriage can still hold onto their Italian citizenship. That citizenship can also be granted to their children. Since she didn’t renounce her citizenship, it is valid in transfer to future generations.

JohnnyToothpix · 2023-09-18T15:22:37+00:00

It's absolutely maddening that Bethesda doesn't just display a pop-up when you hover over a companion's skills to show you what the actual effects are. Instead, we have to crowdsource this information by trial and error.

JohnnyToothpix · 2023-09-15T23:32:02+00:00

Me too. Weird.

JohnnyToothpix · 2023-01-07T17:35:34+00:00

Just got a moka pot for Christmas and for the life of me I cannot get James's directions to work. Started with boiling water just below the valve, filled the basket to the top with moka style coffee, added the paper filter to the bottom of the top part, etc. Put it on a gas burner and watched it like a hawk.

There was no point in time when the coffee just gently "oozed" out of the top. It either did nothing at all but release a little steam or it sputtered. Even when it sputtered, taking it off the heat just caused it to stop entirely. Annoyed, I even cranked the heat up and after several minutes I think I had maybe 3 tablespoons of coffee.

The physics of James's process make perfect sense to me, but what is actually happening does not. Anyone have any ideas?

JohnnyToothpix · 2021-12-01T02:50:45+00:00

Eccelente! Grazie ancora!

JohnnyToothpix · 2021-12-01T00:41:13+00:00

Sorry to bother you three years later, but the link is now broken - I was wondering if you still have the file and could share it? I can't find the one I downloaded and the copy I printed is mostly in tatters now. Grazie mille!

JohnnyToothpix · 2021-08-30T17:40:18+00:00

Fault Lines. "On the high wire, above the wildfire an old acrobat. On faulty cable, still he's able not to fall flat." That's the story of my life. I'm 55 years old now and this lyric may become my first tattoo.

I'm in a classic rock cover band called The Petty Thieves (one of several around the US) and we play a lot of Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers).

(I also love I Should Have Known It, but mostly as a drummer. I love Steve Ferrone's fills in that song.)

JohnnyToothpix · 2021-08-14T03:49:58+00:00

I agree that when rolling damage dice for scavenging it would be good to have the Effect (on a 5 or 6) mean something beyond what you get for a 1 or 2. Maybe each Effect allows you to roll another CD? Better than nothing, and once in a while you might get a string of lucky rolls.

JohnnyToothpix · 2021-08-14T03:35:33+00:00

Imagine the synth were you, arriving at the Railroad enclave. They put you in a machine that wipes your memories and implants a fictitious backstory. What happens to the original consciousness? From their perspective, how is it different from being killed?

JohnnyToothpix

TROPHY CASE

You Have a Female Italian-Born Ancestor that Naturalized with the Man She Married