Recently, ESU LokSound has mis-programmed/mis-packaged some LS v5 21 pin decoders. This has resulted in non-DCC decoders being put into packages and sold as DCC decoders. If you receive any of these (the author just did) they need to be returned to ESU and will be swapped for proper DCC decoders. They have acknowledged this problem. Just include your purchase receipt for warranty purposes along with an explanation of why it is being returned.
How do you tell?
If you download a v5 file and after modifying it you try to burn it to the decoder, you will get a message about "converting the project to a v5 file". This doesn't make sense since you were already modifying what you thought was a v5 file. In actuality it is just converting it to a non-DCC file. Look at the Motor Settings sheet and you'll see the selection at the top of the sheet that allows you to choose between a 3-point speed curve and the speed table has disappeared. Non-DCC decoders don't support the 3-point curve. All you have now is the speed table.
As far as the author knows this only applies to v5 21 pin decoders.
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