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USB led should be off.
1.2 Initial testing:
1.
Press the “LOCO RESET” button below the SCALE switch to ensure the CS powers
with NO locomotives selected or consisted. The will beep 3 times to
confirm reset has occurred.
2. Plug a DT602 into the LocoNet
“A”
jack on your .The DT602 should beep
and power up.
3.
During this plug-in the red NET led should wink off several times showing the
has seen the DT602 logon messages OK.
4. Press the DT602 PWR key and then; the TRK_On or A-softkey and then the TRK_
OFF or B-softkey. The TRACK STATUS led should light slightly “yellow” with
TRK power ON and dark when the TRK is powered OFF.
5.
Press the “LOCO RESET” button below the SCALE switch to ensure the CS starts
with NO locomotives selected or consisted. The will beep 3 times to
confirm this has occurred.
6. On The DT602, press keys: Loco, then 0, then Loco again to select the Analog or
“address 00” locomotive. Watching the TRACK STATUS led, turn the active throt
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tle speed up to 99% and observe this led color changing. Press the Direction key
below the active throttle and you should now see a noticeable color shift.
7. This checks out locomotive selection and track control without requiring a known
functioning decoder install.
NOTE: These are DT602 instructions, please refer to your specific throttle manual for
similar steps to perform these tests.
1.3 DCC Decoder functional test:
These steps will allow you to verify DCC con-
trol with an unknown DCC decoder in a test locomotive.
1. Connect two wires from a short piece of isolated test track to the PA and PB
programmer terminals. Place a test locomotive
with a DCC decoder installed onto this temporary
programmer track.
2. On the DT602 press keys: Menu, 1 , then the
READ or A-softkey.
3. The DT602 will read a DCC decoder on the pro-
gramming track and show Quick Decoder Setup
result screen as shown at right. During this read
process, the PROG led will flash RED.
4. This example line #8 shows AD4 is OFF, so we
will address this DCC decoder with AD2 or Short
address, shown in line #1 as 0003.
5. If ‘Use AD4’ is ON, then we would use line #2 or
AD4 or Long Address value of 4425 to select this
locomotive.
6. If there is a problem and the cannot see
the test locomotive and installed DCC decoder on the program track, the status line
shows “Program Track Empty!” and you will need to correct this likely connection
Quick Decoder Setup:
0- Last Menu
1- AD2 ShortAdr
2- AD4 Long Adr
3- CV29 Value
9-
4- NDOT Rev
5- 28 not 14 Step
6- Analog
7- Speed Table
8- Use AD4
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Pd Mode
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OFF
ON
ON
OFF
OFF
READ
WRITE
DATA
0003
4425
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