7. When you are finished programming the address, press the EXIT Key
to resume normal operations. If you want to program CVs other than
the address, you must exit address programming before doing so.
13.3 Using The Programming Track To Program CVs Other
Than Addresses
There are many different CVs that have been defined to handle many charac-
teristics you might want to use for your locomotives. Your decoder manual has
a complete listing of CVs that are available in specific decoders, what they do
and suggested values for each CV.
1. Be sure that only the locomotive you want to program is on the pro-
gramming track.
2. Press the PROG Key to enter programming mode. The DCS50 will
display one of the programming modes available. Digitrax recom-
mends the Paged Mode when you are using the programming track.
As you press the PROG Key repeatedly, you will cycle through the
following choices.
Once the mode you want to use is on the screen you can go to step 3.
For example, to use Paged mode stop pressing the PROG Key when the
following screen appears:
3. Press the CV Key and you will see P followed by the last CV number
used by the DCS50. The P reminds you that you are in paged mode
and the number displayed is the last CV used by the DCS50.
4. Enter the CV number you want to program. For example, if you want
to set up acceleration which is controlled by CV03, use the keypad
to enter 03.
5. Press the CV-RD key to to read back the data value currently pro-
grammed into the decoder for the CV selected. Your screen will
show something like this: