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To add a DB150 booster to your Super Empire Builder Set:
1. Start with an un-powered DB150.
2. Connect the DB150‘s CONFIG A & GROUND terminals with a short
length of wire
3. Set the DB150’s MODE switch to RUN
.
4. Power up the DB150. The DB150 will automatically convert to boost-
er only operation when you power it up.
5. Connect the DB150 you just set up to run as a booster to your DB150
that is already running as a command station on LocoNet via either
LocoNet Jack A or B using LocoNet Cables that have been tested
with the LT1.
6. You can add more DB150s by “daisy chaining” additional DB150
boosters via the LocoNet Jack A or B on any DB150 in the system.
If you experience problems with operation after you add a DB150 to
your system, check to be sure that you have actually set it up as a
booster by going through the steps above again. We have seen this
simple mistake cause operating problems with modular layouts when
a DB150 set up as a command station is added to a layout that was
already up and running with another command station (DCS100 or
DB150). In this case, two command stations can be trying to run the
same layout causing some undesirable operating results such as
trains that appear to be running away.
4.6 Setting Up A Programming Track
Decoders are programmed when the command station sends programming
information to them through the rails. There are two basic ways of program-
ming decoders.
Service mode programming
broadcasts a message to all DCC equipped locos
that are on the track. Because this is a broadcast method, you will need to set
up a programming track so that the programming instructions only go to the
loco you want to program. For many decoders, the addresses can only be pro-
grammed using service mode programming. Service mode is used to program
all other CVs as well.
Operations mode programming (Ops Mode)
is done on the layout with pro-
gramming directed to a specific decoder address. Ops mode programming is
used to program all CVs allowed by the decoders installed in the locos while
they are running on the layout. This means that you can program CVs without
using a programming track.
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