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2.0 Quick Start Guide
This Quick Start Guide will have you running a train with your UT6 in about a
minute! You will begin this process with an existing Digitrax command station
connected to a layout or a test track.
Make sure that you take any analog (address 0000/non-decoder) locomotives
off the track before you begin. Refer to Figure 1 for the UT6 throttle layout.
Figure 2 shows an example of the color LCD and the typical HOME screen
information display.
1. Power up your Digitrax Command Station as normal.
2 Plug the UT6 throttle into a LocoNet RJ12 type jack on your Digitrax
Command Station or layout using the LocoNet cable provided with the UT6.
3. The UT6 will beep and flash-up a start screen that includes the text
“Welcome to UT6” and other information, and then log-on to LocoNet, then
revert to a normal HOME screen. The STATUS BAR will show the text “LN”
to indicate connection via a LocoNet cable, and green “Trk” letters if the track
power is ON. The UT6 does not need batteries when plugged into LocoNet
4. Press the; loco
key, then the key and then the
key again.
5. The throttle display will now show address 0000 in big numbers mid-screen,
and a green arrow symbol showing direction, and a current speed indication
above this. The scrolling HELP prompt line at the bottom of the display pro-
vides useful operating hints and information in context as you use the UT6, or
if you get confused as to control actions possible.
6. Press the power
key, and above key will show Trk_ON and Trk_OFF
above the key indicating the soft key action that will happen
when
you press
that key down. Press and check the track status led on the command station
is lit, indicating the track is now powered ON.
7. Twist the throttle knob right or left, and the speed % indication above
the direction arrow will change, and the track status led should change color
slightly. Flip the direction change switch to reverse the direction of the Analog
locomotive selected as address 0000. The direction icon in the LCD shows the
current
system
direction, and if this does not match the toggle switch, simply
swap the toggle switch to correct this.
8. With these simple steps you have made your first locomotive address selec
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tion with your UT6 family throttle. Place an analog loco on the tracks to now
operate it on address 0000.
ENJOY running your trains!
Put a locomotive on the tracks that has a known decoder address, simply restart
at step 4 above, and enter the known decoder address numbers to operate that
locomotive. Note that the soft key meanings will change as the screens and
