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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 usually run the decoder.
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. .
3. Enter the address number of the locomo-
tive you want to select. The text above the
address number will provide you addition-
al information about the loco address num-
ber 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 com-
plete the Steal process. See section
4.6
.
The second set of numbers, usually “128”
specifies the number of speed steps asso
-
ciated with the address by the command
station. 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.
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 and the decoder inside
the locomotive has good pickup connections. The
Track Status Indicator
should be lit.
6. Turn the
Throttle Knob
to now run your Locomotive. Change direction
with the direction toggle switch.
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