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4.0 How to select Locomotives and run trains
Each decoder receives a unique address. To select a decoder equipped locomo-
tive and run it on your throttle, you must know it’s address. Digitrax decoders
are set up at the factory with the “default” address “03”. This means that when
you take a Digitrax decoder out of the package and install it in your loco, you
can select address “03” on your throttle and run the decoder.
If you do not know the address of a decoder equipped locomotive, you can pro-
gram a new decoder address and select it to run using this address, or use the
DT602 and system programming track to read back the decoder address.
See
Section 7.1 for details on address and CV programming.
4.1 How to select a Locomotive address
1. In order to select a locomotive you need to know it’s address and place it
on powered layout track..
2. Press the
key once to enter loco selection mode, the large numbers in
the Loco Info Area will begin to blink alternating black and gray. The soft
keys will also change to give you new choice; “MU”, “Recall” and
“MORE”. Pressing “MORE” will bring up “Disptch” “Stat. Edit” and
“MORE” as soft key choices. Pressing “MORE” again will return to the
previous soft key choices. These soft keys will be covered in the following
sections.
3. Enter the address number of the locomotive you want to select. The text
above the address number will provide you additional information about
the loco address number you are selecting. If it says “free” the locomotive
is available for selection. If it says “busy” the locomotive is in-use on
another throttle, to select it you must complete the Steal process. See sec-
tion
4.6
. The second set of numbers, usually “128” specifies the number of
speed steps associated with the address. See Status Editing, Section
4.7
for
more details.
4. If there is “cn”, “mid’, or “top” the locomotive is part of an MU/consist,
see section
4.8
regarding consisting. Soft key
E
as “Sel Top” will appear
if the address has a link up in an MU. Press this key to
find then select
the
TOP loco address to control the whole consist speed and direction.
5. Once you have entered the address, press the
key
again. The entered
address number will go steady black and you will have control of the loco-
motive. Make sure that
Track Power
is turned on. The
Track Status
Indicator
should be lit.
6. Turn the
Throttle Knob
to now run your Locomotive. Change direction
with the direction key under the speed knob. You can also “double click”
down quickly on the throttle knob to change direction.