Digitrax Evolution Express Series - Removing a Locomotive from an MU; MU of Mismatched Locomotives; Controlling Functions on Mued Locomotives

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4.10 Removing a Locomotive from an MU
To remove a locomotive address from an MU:
1. Select the locomotive address you want to remove from a consist. To do
this, press and enter the address numbers. The large address numbers
in the Loco Info Area will begin to blink black and gray, and the consist
ag “cn” should show in the Loco Info area indicating this address is in a
consist. The soft keys will also change to give you the options “MU”,
“Recall” and “MORE”& press again.
2. Press the once to enter MU mode, If the ashing address is in a con-
sist the new soft key settings will include an “MU-” choice
3. Press the key labeled “MU-”: This removes the ashing address from
the consist. The DT602 will exit MU mode and the removed locomotive
will now be selected on the throttle.
4.11 MU of mismatched locomotives
If all the locomotives in the MU have performance characteristics that are
closely matched, you can run all the MUed locomotives in e.g. 128 step mode.
If the units are completely mismatched (for example, if you are running two
dierent brands of locos with noticeably dierent characteristics), then we
recommend speed matching the locos by programming the decoder with either
Simple 3 step or Advanced 28 step loadable speed tables (See your Decoder
Manual for more information on these features of your decoder).
4.12 Controlling functions on MU’ed locomotives
Even though an individual locomotive is part of an MU and you can’t control
its individual speed and direction, you can still control its function outputs
independently as follows:
1. Select the loco that is part of an MU which you wish to independently con-
trol functions. To do this, press enter the address numbers & press
again to complete selection of the consisted loco.
2. Now use the numeric keypad to control the consisted loco’s functions like
you would any other loco. The changes will take eect immediately if the
locomotives are moving, otherwise changes will take eect when you rese-
lect the TOP address on the throttle.
3. When you are nished turning functions on or o for the consisted loco,
simply select the TOP address and resume running the MU.
4. Remember, you will not be able change the speed or direction of any indi-
vidual loco that is part of an MU. Locomotive speed and direction for all
locos in the MU are controlled ONLY by the TOP address loco.