How To Select And Run Trains; How To Select A Locomotive - Digitrax Zephyr Express DCS52 Manual

8.0 How to Select and Run Trains

Each decoder receives a unique address. To select a decoder equipped locomo-
tive and run it on your throttle, you must know it's address. Digitrax decod-
ers are set up at the factory with the "default" address "03". This means that
when you take a Digitrax decoder out of the package and install it in your
loco, you can select address "03" on your throttle and run the decoder. The
first Configuration Variable (CV) programmed by most users is the decoder's
address since it is not very useful to have all of your locos run on address "03."
If you do not know the address of the decoder equipped locomotive you want
to run, you can simply program the decoder's address and select it to run using
the new, known address or use the DCS52 to read back the decoder address.
See Section 11.2 for details on address programming.

8.1 How to Select a Locomotive

1. In order to select a locomotive you must know it's address and make sure
it is placed on the track connected to the DCS52.
2. Make sure that Track Power is turned on. The Track Status Indicator
should be lit.
Press the Loco Key once to enter loco selection mode, the large numbers
3.
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". Pressing
"MORE" will bring up "Disptch" "Stat. Edit" and "MORE" as soft key
options. Pressing "MORE" again will return to the previous soft key
options. These keys will be covered in the following sections.
Trk
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Local:Adr-free, 128s
sp 0 %
0003
F
Mu Recall
is "cn", "mid', or "top" the locomotive is part of a consist, see section 12.0
regarding consisting.
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4. Enter the address of the loco-
motive you want to select. The
text above the address number will
provide you additional information
about the loco address you are select-
ing. If it says "free" the locomotive
is available for selection. If it says
"busy" the locomotive is in use on
another throttle, to select it you must
complete the steal process. See sec-
tion 8.6. The second set of numbers,
usually "128" specifies the number
of speed steps associated with the
address. See Status Editing, Section
16.1 for more details. Next, if there
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