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7. Set the
Direction Control Lever
to
FOrWarD
and turn the
Throttle
Knob
clockwise slowly to increase the speed of the locomotive. As the
speed increases, the locomotive on the track will begin to move forward.
The direction of digital locomotives is determined by the DCC signal so,
forward means that the loco will move in the direction the decoder is set up
to recognize as forward.
8. Change the
Direction Control Lever
to
reverSe
and the loco will move
in the reverse direction.
9. Change the
Direction Control Lever
to the
BraKe
position and the loco
will slow down and stop. Move the
Direction Control Lever
back to
FOrWarD
or
reverSe
and the loco will move again.
10.Turn the
Throttle Knob
to
StOp
and the loco will stop moving.
11. If you have a headlight installed in your loco, press the
laMp/0
key to
toggle between lights on and off. Many DCC-ready locomotives have direc-
tional lighting installed, with headlight/back-up light operating depending
on direction of travel of the locomotive. If you have other functions
installed in your loco, you can operate them by pressing the associated
number key for the function you want to operate. You must have sound
capability installed in your locomotive in order to operate the sound func-
tions (
Bell/1
and
WhiStle/2
keys and others).
9.3usingthereCallKey
The Zephyr Xtra’s
RECALL
feature allows you to change control among
recently used addresses without the need to re-enter the address each time.
The factory default is a 2 address recall stack which allows you to switch
quickly between the last two loco addresses that you used. You can increase
this to 4 or 8 entries, see below for instructions.
1. To switch control from the loco address currently in use to the last address
used, press the
RECALL
key. The display will bring up the previously used
address.
2. Press the
RECALL
key to cycle through the addresses available for recall.
Each address will appear in the display and be flashing indicating that it is
available for selection.
3. When the loco address you want to control appears in the display, press the
LOCO key to begin controlling that address.
To change to a 4 address stack, change OpSw10 to closed and OpSw11 to
thrown
