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Command Station Advanced Features and Topics
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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