NCE Power Cab - Programming and Extended Function Control

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CLEAR
Disbands (breaks up) a consist.
ADD [LOCO]
Adds a locomotive to a consist.
DELETE [LOCO]
Drops a locomotive from a consist. For use with Advanced Consists ONLY (this
button is inactive with old style consists.
PROGRAMMING and EXTENDED FUNCTION
CONTROL
PROG/ESC/F10
Provides selection of the various system
menus available for setting up decoders,
cabs, time, etc.
This button also doubles as an “escape”
key during number/data entry. Whenever
the cursor (flashing rectangular box) is shown on the cab display to indicate the cab
is waiting for data to be input you can press PROG/ESC to cancel the data entry and
return to normal operations.
The following menus are accessed round robin fashion with each successive press
of the PROG/ESC key when in normal operations:
l First press: Program on the Main (Operations Mode programming)
l Second Press: Assign loco to Cab
l Third Press: Set Fast Clock
l Fourth Press: Use programming Track
l Fifth Press: Set up Command Station
l Sixth Press: Set up Cab Parameters
l Seventh Press: Program accessory decoders on the mainline
l Eighth Press: Set up Macros (switch route control)
l Ninth press: Browse Advanced Consists
l Tenth press: Program Signal decoders on the mainline
Pressing ENTER at any of the above menus will select that menu, pressing PROG/
ESC will step to the next menu. You can use ‘shortcuts’ to get to the menus you like.
For example: Pressing PROG/ESC followed by 4 takes you to the Program Track
menu.
Pressing SHIFT and PROG/ESC activates F10.
EXPN/F11
In Power Cab
TM
mode, this button is reserved for future features. When the Power
Cab is used as a wireless Pro Cab, this button is used to access the radio setup
menu. When the cab is tethered, it toggles between the display of lines 1 and 2 of the
LCD display and lines 3 and 4. Pressing SHIFT and EXPN activates F11.
Pressing the EXPN key will show the status of functions 1 through 28. The top line of
the screen shows functions 1-14, ‘-’ means the function is off. A digit in the space
means the function is on. The second line of the screen shows functions 15 through
PROG/ESC EXPN 28/128 SHIFT
F10 F12F11