LocoCruiser standard series decoder user manual Ver1.0
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5.5Light effect
5.5.1 Turn on/off light
The LocoCruiser standard series Decoder is equipped with 5 fixed lighting outputs. The
relative values are stored in CV33 to CV37. The table 4-1 shows their default settings:
CV
Function
Default
Range
33
F0F (on/off)
1
1,
2,
4,
8,
16,
32,
128
34
F0R(on/off)
2
35
F1(on/off)
4
36
F2(on/off)
8
37
F3(on/off)
16
95
F4(on/off)
Not yet open
Table 4-1: Lighting output on/off allocation (F0F is front light and F0R is rear light)
Note:
Value =1 control by F1
Value =2 control by F2
Value =16 control by F0
Value =128, always light on.
5.5.2 light effect
The CV33, CV34 values just effect the turn on or off status. However, the LocoCruiser
standard series Decoder is featured with 10 lighting effects including the dimmer, the
warning effect, the blinking per speed effect, the random blinking effect, the strobe light
effect and 3 fixed-frequency blinking effects. Understanding more about the CV49 to CV53
will help you adjusting the CV settings to bring you more than one thousand of lighting
effects. The information of CVs, outputs and light effects are shown in table 4-3 as below.
CV
Function
Default
Range
Record your number in
here
49 FOF light effect
16
0-255
50 FOR light effect
8
0-255
51
F1 light effect
0
0-255
52
F2 light effect
0
0-255
53
F3 light effect
0
0-255
96
F3 light effect
Not yet
open
0-255
Table 4-2: Light effect allocation
5.6 CV29 setting
CV29 related to the operating efficiency of the decoder. The performance of every bit switch
will have a significant impact on the decoder. In order to allow the modelers can easily adjust each
bit of CV29, we make list of CV29 switch setting in particular in the following table, so you can refer
to each different needs to adjust.
CV29
Bit 0
Bit 1
Bit 2
Bit 3
Bit 4
Bit 5
Value
Function
description
Reverse
direction of
loco
14 or
28/128
speed
steps
DC analog
operation
Bi-direction
control (Not
release)
Speed
table
Long
address
