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The
locomotive
has
now been
returned to original factory defaults
including
all DCC and Analog
values.
Turn your Locomotive Off or On using the Magnetic Wand (Analog Only)
Your
locomotive
can be
selected
(turned on) or deselected (turned off) using the Magnetic Wand.
When
the locomotive
is deselected
,
it will remain unmoving and silent with lights off and will not
respond to changes in
track
voltage or
Analog
horn or bell signals or programming commands.
To shut off a locomotive:
•
Enter
neutral
and
turn
on
the
bell
.
•
Place the Magnetic Wand
over the switch area.
The bell
will shut
off
followed by the
locomotive
shutting
down
and all lights will go off
.
To turn on a locomotive:
•
Make
sure track power is applied.
Place
the Magnetic Wand over the switch area on the
locomotive.
The lights
will come on followed by start up sounds. The engine is now
selected and
will
respond to track voltage and all bell and horn signals.
Note:
You
can turn off an engine in a consist even though it has been
programmed
as a Helper
type with
disabled bell
and horn sound. Simply send the bell signal command. Even though the
bell will not be heard
,
the Magnetic Wand will shut the locomotive down
.
Using the Magnetic
Wand
makes it easy to turn engines off or on in Analog without the need
for
blocks. You can place engines on sidings and shut them off without having to switch power off
in
that
track
section.
You can make up
consists by bringing up each locomotive one at a time
.
After
you couple
each engine
to the consist, shut it down with the Magnetic Wand
.
When all engines
are in place, select each engine in turn with the Magnetic Wand until all locomotives are
running. You can
now operate
the consist as a single unit. When you break up the consist, you
first deselect all engines one at a time and then select each one in turn as you disconnect and
pull away from
the
consist.
High Voltage Circuit Breaker (Analog and DCC)
Your locomotive is designed to operate on normal HO track voltage supplied by most HO power
packs. If
track voltage
exceeds 21.5 volts peak, the motor drive circuit will automatically shut
down and the engine will coast
to
a stop, while the Quantum
System
alerts you to the problem
through a continuous series of
hoots. This
built in safety feature protects Quantum and the
electric motor
from
excessive voltage
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•
•
To
restart your engine, reduce the track voltage until the hooting stops and the motors
re-engage.
Program Track Operation (DCC)
This
locomotive
conforms to
NMRA
standards for program track operation.
However
,
the
Quantum sound system requires more current to operate than standard decoders and may not
respond
to the
limited program track power from
some command stations. If your program track
will not respond properly, all
CVs
i
n
your
locomotive
can be programmed in
Ops
Mode
.
Reasons why Your Locomotive is Silent or will not Start (Analog and DCC)
In
case your engine
remains
silent after power up and turning the power off for 15 seconds does
not return it
to
normal operation
,
try the following suggestions to bring your engine back to normal
sound operation
.
•
Make
sure
the
engine has not been Muted with
the
F8 Key.
•
Check
to
see
if your
manual volume (using Magnetic
Wand)
or digital volume has been
turned all
the
way down.
•
You
may have
shut your
engine down in DCC using the F9 key, which remains
in
effect
in
Analog
or it
has been
shut down using the
Magnetic
Wand in Analog. Go back
to
DCC
operation and start
your
engine with the
F6
key
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.
Once started, you can return to
DC
or
DCC
operation.
Or use the Magnetic Wand
in Analog which selects and starts
the
engine if
shutdown
.
•
If the
above methods do not start your eng
i
ne
,
reset your locomotive to factory default
values
as
described
above.
"
T
h
ehigh voltagecircuit breaker will sometimes activate if the load(inertia or momentum) feature
is
used. Most power packs havesubstantial
series
resis
t
a
n
ce
,
which lowers
the track
voltage when theengine
is
drawing power
.
H
oweve
r
,
withaloadsetting
,
the enginedoes
not require
much
power
when it first
starts moving
.
If
the
throttle
is
turned
upall
the
way before the
e
n
ginegains
speed,
the
track
voltage will beunusually high
andcan
trigger the high
voltage
circuit
breaker
.
"
IImay takeacouple of tries toget itstarted
.
