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Command Station Advanced Features
This page lists some of your Command Station’s
advanced features that are not commonly used.
The troubleshooting section has an extensive collection of
procedures, explanations and easy to use tools for finding
and fixing common problems.
Advanced Features and Capabilities Of Your Command Station
How to customize decoder functions in an Advanced Consist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
How to speed-match locomotives in an Advanced Consist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Locomotive address registration and speed step setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Monitoring any active throttle or decoder at the Command Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Advanced Features of Programming Track and Mainline OPS Programming
Program any CV to any value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Programming individual bits of a CV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
CV29 - A special CV with interesting and useful options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Finding the decoder address - Macro 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Programming the decoder’s speed steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Finding the value of any decoder CV - Macro 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Verifying a CV value or CV bit value - Macro 97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Creating and using custom speed tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Fine tuning locomotive performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Loading a decoder with custom speed table while on the main line - Macro 63 . . . . . . . 105
AD4 - Accessory decoder programming using Programming Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
AD4 - Accessory decoder programming using Main Line (OPS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
AD4- Factory reset to original settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Command Station Memory Management
Managing locomotive addresses and locomotive memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Command Station Initialization messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
How to reset Command Station to original factory settings and clear all memory. . . . . . 115
Command Station memory backup battery replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
System Performance Optimization
Maximizing System Performance - The F2 Response Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Selecting a locomotive update rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The Command Station’s Serial Computer Port
Cabling requirements and serial adapter cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Disabling and enabling the serial port, obtaining the protocol document. . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Troubleshooting Simplified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Complete List Of All Command Station Commands And Reference Page. . . . . . . . . . 138
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