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you MUed address 14 to the TOP loco 23 and then tried to MU another address
to 14 you would get this error. If you wanted to add another loco to the MU
with 23 as the TOP address, the right way to do it is to add that loco to 23, not
to another address in the MU.
4.10 Removing a Locomotive from an MU
To remove a locomotive address from an MU:
1.
Select the locomotive address you want to remove from a consist. To do
this, press
and enter the address numbers. The large address numbers
in the Loco Info Area will begin to blink black and gray, and the consist
flag “cn” should show in the Loco Info area indicating this address is in a
consist.
Press the key to bring up the 5 additional loco selection tasks The
numeric keys will now show soft keys; Recall, Status Edit, MU+, MU- and
Dispch choices.
MU- choice will only show if the address is consisted
.
2. Press the
key labeled “MU-”: This removes the flashing address from
the consist. The UT6 will exit MU mode and the removed locomotive will
now be selected on the throttle.
4.11 MU of mismatched locomotives
If all the locomotives in the MU have performance characteristics that are
closely matched, you can run all the MU’ed locomotives in e.g. 128 step mode.
If the units are completely mismatched (for example, if you are running two
different brands of locos with noticeably different characteristics), then we
recommend speed matching the locos by programming the decoder with either
Simple 3 step or Advanced 28 step loadable speed tables (See the Decoder
Manual on the Digitrax web site for more information on these features of
DCC decoders).
4.12 Controlling functions on MU’ed locomotives
Even though an individual locomotive is added to an MU so you can’t control
its individual speed and direction, you can still control its function outputs
independently as follows:
1.
Select the loco that is part of an MU which you wish to independently con-
trol functions. To do this, press
enter the address numbers & press
again to complete selection of the consisted loco.
2. Now use the numeric keypad to control the consisted loco’s functions like
you would any other loco. The changes will take effect immediately if the
locomotives are moving, otherwise changes will take effect when you rese
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lect the TOP address on the throttle.
3.
When you are finished turning functions on or off for the consisted loco,
simply select the TOP address and resume running the MU.
