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If you have a really old DCC system, you may find that this locomotive won’t work at
all – nor will many other new models. Go update DCC your system to a newer version.
Your computer is updated regularly. Your DCC system should be updated as well.
If your sounds do not operate correctly on a Digitrax DCC system, this likely means that
you need to clear the memory on your system, achieved by “clearing slot #36.” A basic
summary of how to do this can be found on the F40PH-2D page in the Support section
of our web site. More detailed information can be found on the Digitrax web site.
TURN ON THE SOUND
Press F8 and you will hear the F40PH-2D startup sequence followed by the sound of
it idling. You can adjust CVs to prevent the locomotive from running until the startup
sequence has played out. Jason is really impatient so he turned this feature off. Refer to
a full ESU LokSound Select decoder manual for more information. You can download it
from our web site. It’s called the “Prime Mover Startup Delay” and at the time of writing
it was on page 35.
If you press F8 when the locomotive is already moving, it will skip the startup and the
sound will just turn on. Press F8 again to turn the sound off.
Note that if you are listening to your F40PH-2D idling nicely and then you select another
engine, your locomotive still thinks F8 is pressed so it will keep idling along. However,
if someone else selects your locomotive’s number and F8 isn’t pressed on his or her con-
troller, the F40PH-2D will promptly shut down. He or she will need to press F8 again.
We’re being gender neutral even though we know that just about everyone who bought
this model is a man. Though we have it on good authority that one of the locomotives
was purchased for a precocious schnoodle in Medicine Hat, so we should probably say
“he, she or it.”
FUNCTIONS
F0 Headlights
F11 Fast Doppler Horn
F1 Bell
F12 Hostler (Switching) Mode
F2 Horn (and Bell)
F15 Emergency Horn
F3 Slow Doppler Horn
F19 Turn Off Number Boards
F4 Full Throttle
F23 Brake Release On/Off
F5 Turn On/Off HEP
F24 Brake
F6 Ditch Lights
F7 Dim the Headlights
F8 Startup/Mute/Shutdown
F9 Strobe Light
F10 Xenon Light
