RailKing One-Gauge SD70ACe Diesel Engine w/Proto-Sound® 3.0
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Lost or Unknown Engine Address and the 55-55-55 Address Reset
In some cases you may not remember or have somehow lost the engine address. Following
the above Feature or Factory Resets will allow you to recover an engine. The limitation to
this is that for most resets you must know the engine address. If you are unsure of the
engine address you can apply the 55-55-55 reset (send a value of 55 to CV55 to engine
address 55). In order for this to work correctly the engine's address must NOT be 55. The
engine will need to be sitting at some address other than 55.
Below is the method (55-55-55 Reset) you can employ to return an engine to its factory
default short address of 3 (it will also set the engine's long address back to its default –
usually 3333 or the cab number on some models) if you're unsure of the engine's current
address:
• Check first to see if the engine happens to be sitting at address 55. Call up engine 55
on your DCC handheld and hit F3 to start the engine up. If it starts up then you can
change the address to whatever you want using CV1 (short address) or CV17 and CV18
(long address)
• If the engine doesn't start up at address 55 then you can use the 55-55-55 reset. To
perform this follow the instructions below:
• Ensure the DCC system is powered up and power is on the rails
• Call up engine address 55.
NOTE:
you are NOT changing the engine's address to
55 you are just telling the DCC system to start talking to engine address 55. You
will want to make sure that no other M.T.H. engines are on the rails or any other
manufacturer's engines with an address of 55 are on the rails. M.T.H. engines will
listen for commands coming to engine address 55 when the 55-55-55 reset is
enabled even though they are not programmed as address 55
• Enter PoM mode on your DCC handheld and write a value of 55 to CV55.
Again, even though your M.T.H. engine is NOT on address 55 it will still listen for
this reset command
• Call up address 3 on your DCC handheld and hit F3. The engine should now
start-up
If you have performed the 55-55-55 reset and the engine still doesn’t respond then place the
engine on the programming track output of your DCC system and program a value of 3 to
CV1. This will set the engine’s short address to 3. However, as long as the engine is NOT
programmed as address 55 then the 55-55-55 reset will always set the engine’s long and short
addresses back to their factory defaults. It will also set the engine’s addressing back to short
(if you happened to have CV29 set to long addressing)
The 55-55-55 Reset can be confusing at first but the main point to note is that you are NOT
setting the engine’s address to 55 to perform the reset, you are just calling up engine address
55 on your DCC handheld and sending a value of 55 to CV55. Again, M.T.H. engine’s will
listen to the 55-55-55 reset command even though the engine’s address isn’t actually 55 (and
it can’t be for the 55-55-55 reset to work).
