NCE Power Cab Owner Reference Manual
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5By convention all DCC locomotive decoders are set to short address 3 or longaddress 3333 at the factory. If your decoder has not had its address changedyou will see a short address as the active address. Press 1 to set up theaddress.ACTIVE ADR:SHORTACTIVE ADR:SHORTACTIVE ADR:SHORTACTIVE ADR:SHORTACTIVE ADR:SHORTSHORT ADR: 003SHORT ADR: 003SHORT ADR: 003SHORT ADR: 003SHORT ADR: 003TIP A decoder can have 2 different addresses, the Short Address (values from 1-127) or the Long Address (sometimes called 4 digit with a range of 0000-9999). Adecoder can use one or the other but not both at the same time. Some entry leveldecoders can only use the Short Address.#8 Press ENTER to keep the current short address set to 3.#9 Press ENTER to skip activating the short address.#10 Next you will see the Long Address (which is probably set to 0000 or sometimesto 9999). With older decoders, it may take a up to 30 seconds to read the longaddress.This is the address we will change.#11 You will likely want to enter the number on the side of the locomotive cab as theLong Address. Type in the number of the locomotive and press ENTER.#12 Press 1 to activate the Long Address.You have just changed the Long Address.At this point, press PROG/ESC twice to exit the program track mode.You have just completed the hardest part of DCC… programming the locomotive onthe programming track.To select the locomotive:a. Press SELECT LOCO buttonb. Press the digits corresponding to the Long Address you just programmed..c. Press ENTERAt this point you should have control of the locomotive. Now is the time to program upa second locomotive and run them both.RUNNING TWO LOCOMOTIVES WITH ONE CAB#1 Select the first locomotive you wish to run (SELECT LOCO followed by itsaddress then ENTER).#2 Press RECALL to store this locomotive in one of the internal recall “slots” of thecab. The display of the cab will now show a locomotive of 000.#3 Select the second locomotive and start running it.#4 By pressing RECALL you can toggle back and forth between the two differentlocomotives. At any time you can select a new locomotive “over the top” of anylocomotive already on the display. The existing locomotive will be forgotten by thecab with the new one taking it’s place. The one in RECALL will remain available forrecall. |
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