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5. Once you have entered the address, press the Loco Key again. The entered
address will go solid black and you will have control of the locomotive.
6. Set the Direction Lever to FORWARD or REVERSE and turn the
Throttle Knob to run your Locomotive. To stop your locomotive set the
Throttle Knob to Stop or the Direction Lever to BRAKE. See section
8.7 for complete instructions on speed and direction control.
8.2 Selecting an analog Locomotive
A locomotive without a DCC decoder is called an analog locomotive. While an
analog locomotive, without a decoder, is sitting still on your digital layout, you
will hear a “singing” sound. This is caused by the DCC track signal when it is
applied to an analog locomotive. Once the analog locomotive is moving, this
sound will change and be less noticeable. To avoid heat build up in your locos
without decoders, Digitrax recommends that analog locos NOT be left sitting
on DCC powered track for long periods of time when they are not running.
Address “00” is reserved for running an analog locomotive. You select and run
these locos like you would a regular DCC equipped locomotive as described
above, only using address “00”. Your analog locomotives will not run with any
other address. As with a regular DC system, only one analog locomotive can be
controlled at a time. If you try to run more than one analog locomotive at the
same time on the layout all of the analog locos will respond to the commands
sent to address “00”.
8.3 Releasing An Address From A Throttle
When you are nished running a locomotive address, release if from your
throttle so that it is available for other throttles to select and run.
1. Use the Throttle Knob to make the locomotive’s speed zero (this step is
optional but strongly recommended as the loco will continue to move if
speed is not reduced to zero).
2. Press the Loco Key to go into select mode.
3. The address will begin to blink in the display. Press the Exit/Stop Key,
this will releases the address from both the throttle and the locomotive
stack in the system. The display on your DCS52 will show the previously
selected address grayed out.
4. If you press the Loco Key again, the throttle will begin ashing the
address you just released. You can re-select that address by pressing the
Loco Key or you can enter a new address to select.
8.4 Selecting a Locomotive using the Recall Soft Key
The DCS52 has a recall feature that remembers the last 10 locomotives you
have selected for easy recall. To select a locomotive using recall:
1. Press the Loco Key once to enter loco selection mode, the large numbers
in the Loco Info Area will begin to blink black and gray. The soft keys
will also change to give you the options “MU” “Recall” and “MORE”.
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