I´ve a NCE PowerCab control. If I run 3 locos, and press the stop button, only stops the choiced loco in that moment, and not the other 2. Is it OK?
Yes, it's only doing a local e-stop, ie the loco under control. This might be configurable, it is on other systems, so that the e-stop stops the entire layout.
--Randy
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If I remember correctly hitting the button 3 times will stop the entire layout.
Springfield PA
Quoted from the NCE System Reference Manual:
EMERGENCY STOP
Pressing EMERGENCY STOP once will stop the active loco/consist for this Cab only. Speed will be immediately set to zero (no momentum). Loco is restarted by changing the speed step or direction. Pressing EMERGENCY STOP three times in succession will bring the entire layout to a stop by shutting off track power. "LAYOUT STOPPED" will be displayed and is cleared by pressing the ENTER key.
I think the above is true for the Power Cab as well as the Power Pro.
Even though you can use the red stop button to stop your locomotive, you should learn to NOT use it for that except in emergencies.
You should just reduce the speed and stop it by using either the speed buttons or the thumb wheel.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
gandydancer19 Even though you can use the red stop button to stop your locomotive, you should learn to NOT use it for that except in emergencies. You should just reduce the speed and stop it by using either the speed buttons or the thumb wheel.
There is a time where that emergency stop button comes in handy, other than an actual "emergency". Guy at the club has one of those MDC galloping goose things with a Tsunami in it. That decoder has some neat shut down and start up sounds, but you can't demonstrate them unless you use the stop button to "turn off" the engine, and then hit a function key to get the engine to restart.
Although I am a relative newcomer to DCC, I believe that any DCC layout should have a few strategically located emergency-stop toggles or pushbuttons that turn off either the track power or the AC feed. With any system that provides continuous power output there are just too many possibilities for problems that somehow outwit the sagety systems. And yes, I have practiced what I am preaching; installed emergency-off pushbuttons when I did the wiring modifications for DCC.
Actually most people have an emergency stop in their pocket and don't realize it. On a couple of occasions I've used the keys in my pocket to throw on the rails to stop the layout.
I´ve tested the PowerCab, and didn´t stop any loco than the choiced in that moment.
That's totally normal. Hitting the red Stop button only stops the engine or consist you are controlling. That's the way it is supposed to work.
Chris van der Heide
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