DCC
When I apply power to the track my
engine doesn’t do anything. No lights, no
sound.
Did you press F3 yet? F3 on your DCC
handheld will start your engine up.
Check to see if that section of track has
power. Use a voltmeter or a lit passenger car,
not your tongue.
Slide the engine a couple of feet in either
direction, you may have a bad track section.
Have you got that section electrically isolated
with a toggle switch or other device?
Start-up
Solution
Sound
Solution
I have no sound on my engine, but my
lights are on and it moves just fine.
When I run Doppler I can hear the
Doppler shift but then the engine sounds
fade out and I can’t get them back.
There's a crackling sound from my
engine
You may have it turned off. Repeatedly press
F6 to cycle through the volume levels (there
are 9 levels, 0-max).
This is normal. You will need to press the F21
button again to turn Doppler off. Your engine
sounds will now return to normal.
Check to see if a screw or some other
material hasn't lodged itself in the underside
of the engine.
Smoke
Solution
My engine isn’t smoking at all.
My engine barely smokes.
Make sure you’ve got the smoke switch ON. It
must be ON for the smoke to operate in DCC
Mode.
Press F12 on your DCC handheld. This will
activate the smoke.
If you just filled it with the smoke fluid
sometimes the fluid can make a seal in the
stack blow down the stack to clear the air
bubble.
You may have set the smoke to Low. F13 will
vary the smoke levels. Or, if you were running
it in DCS mode you may have toggled it there
(if you don’t have F13 on your DCC handheld
you will have to put it back into DCS mode
and change it from there),
or follow the
instructions starting on pg. 27 to move the
smoke volume into an F Function that exists
on your controller
Check for an obstruction in the smoke
stack
Add 10-12 drops of smoke fluid
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