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  • Page 1 FRANÇAIS AU VERSO...
  • Page 2 21-pin plug to a 9-pin plug. We stand by our products 100%. If you ever have a problem with your F9B, or with any other Rapido product, please call us or send us an email. Our e-mail address is trains@ rapidotrains.com.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Operation – DCC/DC with Sound ..............8 • So What’s Different? ................8 • Locomotive Address ................8 • “Firing Up” Your F9B ................8 • Function Keys ..................9 • Prototypical Operation ................9 • Sound Volume Settings ................9 • Sound Volume Settings Chart ..............

  • Page 4: So What's Changed From The Fp9A

    #80784) or a thick-piled hand towel (not a tea towel!) folded over a couple of times on top of the table cloth and lay the F9B on its roof. Alternatively, you can place it upside down in the foam insert inside the wonderful multi-purpose box that the loco came in.

  • Page 5: Missing Or Damaged Parts

    Aussie Rules Football championship, so between our warehouse and your front door chances are this F9B has been used in a 200-yard kick on goal and spiked into the floor during a victory dance by Gord in Receiving. No packaging is designed to survive such punishment.

  • Page 6: Wheelsets And Steam Connectors

    Plated wheels have a tendency to flake off after heavy use, and we want you to use your F9B for a long, long time. These wheelsets will not flake off. The downside is they can’t be easily chemically blackened, so you will probably want to tone them down with a bit of grimy black paint.

  • Page 7: Removing The Shell

    (available from Micro-Mark, product #80784) or a thick-piled hand towel (not a tea towel!) folded over a couple of times on top of the table cloth and lay the F9B on its roof. Alternatively, you can place it upside down in the foam insert inside the wonderful multi-purpose box that the loco came in.

  • Page 8: Operation - Dcc/Dc With Sound

    “8” into CV 8. • Sound startup: On the FP9A, the sound started up just as you started to move the engine. On the F9B, you need to hit F8 to turn on the sound. See below for more info on F8.

  • Page 9: Function Keys

    F3 – STRaIGHT TO 8: This unique feature simulates the prototypical operation of the F9B locomotive. CN, CP and VIA engineers did not slowly go through the notches if leaving a station on a clear signal. They would put the locomotive straight from notch 2 to notch 8.

  • Page 10: Sound Volume Settings Chart

    F9B SOUND VOLUME SETTINGS FUNCTION DEFAULT...

  • Page 11: Factory Reset

    SLOW SPEED THINGY If you are MUing the F9B with our FP9A, then don’t worry about this part. But if you are NOT planning on MU-ing these locos with our FP9A locomotives there is an awesome trick that you can use to get even better slow speed running and smoother operation.

  • Page 12: Limited Lifetime Warranty

    Don’t be shy! aCKNOWLEDGEMENTS A special thanks to Brian Schuff for all of his help in getting us F9B detail photos, and to Gord Hilderman and Don Jaworski for all of the other awesome photos. Thanks to Mark Kaluza and Jakob Mueller for their extensive knowledge and photo collection, and to Kevin Holland for pretty much the same thing.

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