Digitrax Zephyr Express DCS52 - Removing a Loco from an MU; MU of Mismatched Locomotives; Controlling Functions on Mued Locomotives

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to 14 you would get this error. If you wanted to add another loco to the MU
with 23 as the TOP address, the right way to do it is to add that loco to 23, not
to another address in the MU.
12.2 Removing a Loco from an MU
To remove a loco address from an MU:
1. Select the TOP address of the consist you want to use to remove the loco
from. To do this, press the Loco Key, enter the TOP address & press the
Loco Key again.
2. 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”.
3. Press the B Soft Key labeled “Mu”: This will enter MU mode.
4. Enter the address of the loco you wish to remove from the consist.
5. Press the B Soft Key now labeled “Mu-”.
6. You will exit MU mode and the removed locomotive will remain selected
on the throttle.
12.3 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 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 Digitrax
Decoder Manual for more information on these features of your decoder).
12.4 Controlling Functions On MUed 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 for which you wish to independently
control functions. Press the Loco Key, enter the MUed loco’s address, press
the Loco Key.
2. Use the numeric keypad to control the functions like you would any other
loco. The changes will take eect immediately if the locomotives are mov-
ing, otherwise changes will take eect when you reselect 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 by the TOP address.