diff --git a/cli/simple-info.py b/cli/simple-info.py
index dc607b39a..4d1fd6d75 100755
--- a/cli/simple-info.py
+++ b/cli/simple-info.py
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import os
-import io
 import time
 import base64
 import logging
 import argparse
 import requests
 import urllib3
-from PIL import Image
+
 
 sd_url = os.environ.get('SDAPI_URL', "http://127.0.0.1:7860")
 sd_username = os.environ.get('SDAPI_USR', None)
 sd_password = os.environ.get('SDAPI_PWD', None)
 
+
 logging.basicConfig(level = logging.INFO, format = '%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s')
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
@@ -40,16 +40,11 @@ def post(endpoint: str, dct: dict = None):
         return req.json()
 
 
-def encode(fn):
-    with open(fn, 'rb') as f:
-        content = f.read()
-        encoded = base64.b64encode(content).decode()
-        return encoded
-
-
 def info(args): # pylint: disable=redefined-outer-name
     t0 = time.time()
-    data = post('/sdapi/v1/png-info', { 'image': encode(args.input) })
+    with open(args.input, 'rb') as f:
+        content = f.read()
+    data = post('/sdapi/v1/png-info', { 'image': base64.b64encode(content).decode() })
     t1 = time.time()
     log.info(f'received: {data} time={t1-t0:.2f}')
 
diff --git a/modules/sd_models.py b/modules/sd_models.py
index f4795d537..9635b4368 100644
--- a/modules/sd_models.py
+++ b/modules/sd_models.py
@@ -856,10 +856,13 @@ def load_diffuser(checkpoint_info=None, already_loaded_state_dict=None, timer=No
             if model_type in ['Stable Cascade']: # forced pipeline
                 # TODO experimental stable cascade
                 try:
+                    shared.log.debug(f'StableCascade experimental: args={diffusers_load_config} device={devices.device} dtype={devices.dtype}')
                     diffusers_load_config.pop("vae", None)
                     diffusers_load_config.pop("variant", None)
                     decoder = diffusers.StableCascadeDecoderPipeline.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stable-cascade", cache_dir=shared.opts.diffusers_dir, revision="refs/pr/17", **diffusers_load_config)
+                    shared.log.debug(f'StableCascade decoder: scale={decoder.latent_dim_scale}')
                     prior = diffusers.StableCascadePriorPipeline.from_pretrained("stabilityai/stable-cascade-prior", cache_dir=shared.opts.diffusers_dir, **diffusers_load_config)
+                    shared.log.debug(f'StableCascade prior: scale={prior.resolution_multiple}')
                     sd_model = diffusers.StableCascadeCombinedPipeline(
                         tokenizer=decoder.tokenizer,
                         text_encoder=decoder.text_encoder,
@@ -869,9 +872,11 @@ def load_diffuser(checkpoint_info=None, already_loaded_state_dict=None, timer=No
                         prior_prior=prior.prior,
                         prior_text_encoder=prior.text_encoder,
                         prior_tokenizer=prior.tokenizer,
+                        prior_tokenizer=prior.tokenizer,
                         prior_scheduler=prior.scheduler,
-                        prior_feature_extractor=prior.feature_extractor,
-                        prior_image_encoder=prior.image_encoder)
+                        prior_prior_feature_extractor=prior.feature_extractor,
+                        prior_prior_image_encoder=prior.image_encoder)
+                    shared.log.debug(f'StableCascade combined: {sd_model.__class__.__name__}')
                 except Exception as e:
                     shared.log.error(f'Diffusers Failed loading {op}: {checkpoint_info.path} {e}')
                     if debug_load: