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Decoder MU Combinations

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Decoder MU Combinations
Posted by alloboard on Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:12 PM

     I will be getting an HO scale married pair electric Multiple unit set. Car A will be powered while car B will be the dummy. I will install a Digitrax  SDH164D decoder in car A and a function only decoder in car B. I will also give an address to car B. Can regular Digitrax decoders be MUed with function only decoders? I plan on doing this so when car A is going forward the tail lights on car B will come on. Are there other ways of setting up this type operation?

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Posted by tstage on Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:43 PM

It depends.  What particular locomotives are you getting?  Are we talking F-units?

Tom

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Posted by simon1966 on Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:18 PM

If they are always going to be together, then just give them the same address and program the light functions accordingly.  From experience get a TCS function decoder.  The Digitrax one inexplicably does not have directional light effects.

Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum

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