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Rapido Trains F40PH-2D Operating Instructions Manual

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  • Page 1 FRANÇAIS AU VERSO...
  • Page 2 We’ve put a tonne of love and care into the design, production and packaging of your F40PH-2D. That’s a metric tonne of course. That being said, there is always the possibil- ity that you’ve found something wrong with your locomotive. Maybe a grab iron has come loose in transit;...
  • Page 3 Those of you who read the rest of the manual will find out why. 2. If you don’t press F4 or F5, your F40PH-2D locomotive will operate like a freight engine and will not provide power to your passenger cars.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    • Factory Reset ..................16 • Awesome Slow Speed Thingy ............... 17 • More Information ................17 Limited Lifetime Warranty ................. 17 Acknowledgements ..................18 F40PH-2D DCC FUNCTION QUICK REFERENCE HEADLIGHT BELL HORN (AND BELL) DOPPLER HORN GO INTO/OUT OF “STANDBY”...

  • Page 5: Break-In

    We suggest that, after reading this manual, you put your F40PH-2D on a test loop and just let it run in each direction for an hour or two. Fast and slow.

  • Page 6: Removing The Shell

    REMOVING THE SHELL If you need to open up your F40PH-2D (to install a crew, install a decoder, etc.) it is actu- ally quite easy to do. Just be sure to remember these important points: •...

  • Page 7: Installing A Dcc Decoder

    This is available for download on the F40PH-2D page in the Support section of our web site. You will need an ESU Lok- Programmer to write the function mapping to the 54615 decoder. If you don’t have a LokProgrammer, you can adjust CVs in the usual way.

  • Page 8: Prototypical Operation - Dcc (Sound)

    F40PH-2D, for good or for ill. As always, we’ll try to help you fix your F40PH-2D if one of these doo- dads scrambles your locomotive’s circuitry, but we can’t guarantee we’ll be able to.

  • Page 9: Hep Mode: Idle, Standby And Run

    HEP MODE: IDLE, STANDBY AND RUN Inside the cab of a real F40PH-2D is the Head End Power Mode Switch. The three posi- tions are Idle, Standby and Run. This switch is key to how the locomotive sounds and operates.

  • Page 10: Hep Mode: Consisting

    We’ve tried our best to simulate the Head End Power Mode Switch with the F4 and F5 function buttons on your DCC controller. Once the F40PH-2D model is on the track, press F8 to turn on the sounds and put your locomotive into Idle.

  • Page 11: Hep Mode: How To Turn Off This Annoying Feature

    On your programming track (or using a LokProgrammer), input the following (in order): CV31=16, CV32=2, CV413=128, CV415=16 This puts your F40PH-2D into Run as soon as you press F8 to start it up, and it will stay in Run until you press F8 again to shut down the locomotive.

  • Page 12: Functions

    Press F8 again to turn the sound off. Note that if you are listening to your F40PH-2D idling nicely and then you select another engine, your locomotive still thinks F8 is pressed so it will keep idling along. However, if someone else selects your locomotive’s number and F8 isn’t pressed on his or her...
  • Page 13 The bell only turns off when you turn it off manually. By default, your F40PH-2D model bell is set to start ringing when the horn is pressed. It will keep ringing for five seconds and then turn off. We would have preferred to have you turn off the bell manually, but the way a DCC system works precludes that.
  • Page 14 F16 and F17 Sarco Valve (Spitter) These functions turn on or off the Sarco Valve. On the real F40PH-2D, it’s always going. But you often can’t hear it from a distance. In contrast, if you are close to the engine you can hear the Sarco valve pretty prominently.

  • Page 15: Horns

    HORNS There are numerous extra horn recordings included with your F40PH-2D, and you can change them around by changing the value of CV 48. Though why you’d want to change the horn from the GORGEOUS one that we recorded and is included from the factory is beyond us.

  • Page 16: Sound Volume Settings Chart

    0-128 FACTORY RESET On your F40PH-2D, you perform a factory reset by entering a value of “8” into CV 8. Note that this will cause all of your new volume and motor settings to be lost, so you will need to reprogram any settings that you want to keep. You did keep notes like we suggested earlier, didn’t you?

  • Page 17: Awesome Slow Speed Thingy

    Your F40PH-2D will quickly take off at full speed and gradually slow down to a stop while the decoder reads the motor responses. You’ll have fabulous motor control after you do this.

  • Page 18: Acknowledgements

    Don’t be shy! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A lot of people have been instrumental in ensuring this F40PH-2D is both gorgeous and accurate. Special thanks to Jon Calon, Andrew Castle, Pierre Couture, Dan Darnell, Dan Dell’Unto, Matt Donnelly, Chris Fox, Tim Hayman, Matt Herman, Kevin Holland, Manny...

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