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Help with programing Atlas 8-40CW

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Help with programing Atlas 8-40CW
Posted by ricktrains4824 on Monday, May 5, 2008 6:09 PM

In a new silver version(noDCC/sound) unit I am using a digitrax DH163PS decoder and can't get the ditch lights to work seperately from the front headlight. I have decoder pro, so I thought it should work easy, progrmed like I did my Athearn unit, funtion 1 turns on the ditch lights, 2 flashes them. Will this work the same way, did I do it wrong? HELP!!!

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Posted by UpNorth on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 10:14 PM

Your decoder harness should have 2 wires for F1 (green) and F2(violet) that are loose. Did you wire them up ? If you did then go thru the mapping of the functions as per Digitrax manuals and the instruction sheet

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