Heljan BR class 02, conversion to S7

[RichardG]

CV54=0, F1 is useful but find I still manually fine tune the decoder afterwards. I now start by using the recommended motor control settings suggested by ESU, see which one gives the best performance then manually fine tune from there. I've found you can use CV54 several times on the same decoder and get different motor parameter settings each time.

In the instruction book for the decoder there is a table ("Load regulation table for commonly used motors") giving all 12 parameters for 15 different motors, so 180 numerical values. So I do wonder if ESU use CV54=0, F1 themselves.

I suppose the amount of tweaking we do depends on how much of a perfectionist we are, and how easily we can sense small changes. I adopted the Lenz 'Standard V2' for many of my H0 locos, and here you get six pre-defined profiles for different motors. So you choose the profile which works best, and stop worrying.

The LokProgrammer does look very good, but I have decoders from numerous manufacturers. So I see CV54=0, F1 as a fair compromise, and very convenient too.