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FACTORY RESET
On your APT-E, you perform a factory reset by entering a value of “8” into CV 8. Note that this will
cause all of your new address, volume and motor settings to be lost, so you will need to reprogram
any settings that you want to keep. You did keep notes like we suggested earlier, didn’t you?
You can
NOT
lose all of the pre-recorded sounds on your APT-E decoder by doing a factory reset.
If you manage to lose all of the sounds on your APT-E then you have probably set fire to your
decoder – you really shouldn’t have used the controller from that Dublo tinplate set you got for
Christmas in 1951. Open up your APT-E and pour out the ashes.
AWESOME SLOW SPEED THINGY
There is an awesome trick that you can use to get even better slow speed running and smoother
operation. It’s called the Automatic Motor Tuning Feature. This feature will automatically adjust the
Back-EMF in most cases and give you phenomenal slow-speed performance.
In order to use this automatic adjustment you need to use Ops mode programming, i.e. program-
ming on the mainline. Make sure your APT-E is in “forward” and that you have lots of room in front
of it on your mainline. And we mean
LOTS
of room. (Note that PC-1 is forward. You don’t want
to get that wrong…) Set CV 54 to a value of 0. Then get out of programming mode and press F1.
We’ll say this again: Make sure you have plenty of room in
FRONT
of your APT-E and it is not
headed for the shed floor!!!
Your APT-E will quickly take off at full speed and suddenly stop while the decoder reads the mo-
tor responses. You’ll have fabulous motor control after you do this. If you ever have to reset your
locomotive, you can do the automatic adjustment again – it just takes a few seconds.
(If you didn’t check and your APT-E is now in 119 pieces, have fun putting it back together. We’ll
be right behind you, cheering you on. 5000 miles behind you.)
MORE INFORMATION
While addressing the features that most modellers will need for normal operation, these instruc-
tions have covered just a small number of the many customizable features of your ESU LokSound
decoder. For advanced users who want to more fully explore the capabilities of the decoder we
suggest downloading the ESU Loksound Select decoder manual. This is available on the APT-E
page in the Support section of our web site. We don’t understand the half of it.
LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY
We will do our best to solve any problems or issues that you may have with your APT-E. If your
train has any defects that originate from the factory, we will repair your train using new compo-
nents or replace it outright should a repair not be possible. However, we can only fix your APT-E
while we have additional ones in stock. We normally keep spares for up to six months after a
model is released. If you purchased this train secondhand or first opened it after six months, it is
possible that we no longer have any replacements and that a repair is the only option. Please give
us a call or write us an email, and we will see what we can do to help you out.
Repairs on the APT-E are being performed for us in the UK by Charlie Petty at DC Kits. Please send
an email to Rapido (using the address
) describing the problem and
we will first try to see if it is something we can solve over email. If not, we will arrange to send
you a return authorisation, and you will send your model directly to Charlie for repair. If you do
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