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Can't program Athearn Big Boy N scale

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Can't program Athearn Big Boy N scale
Posted by fireman127 on Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:34 PM

 I have a newly purchased N scale Athearn Big Boy, Digitrax Super Chief with Dt400 throttle and I haved tried to program just the  address of the locomotive and keep getting the error that ther is no page. In the manual that comes with the loco it says the Decoder accepts paged programing. Any ideas what the problem is?

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Posted by Jacktal on Monday, December 7, 2009 12:02 AM

I've had success with reprogramming mine with my DT400/DCS200 setup.However it doesn't go with the said option,I've had to try the other options described in the DT400 manual.One worked but I don't remember wich one it was,you'll have to give it a try.If neither works,I then can be of no help to you.Good luck.

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Posted by mfm37 on Monday, December 7, 2009 3:39 AM

 Use direct mode (Pd) on your programming track. If that fails, Operations mode programming on the main track should work with the Big Boy.

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Posted by nolatron on Monday, December 7, 2009 3:42 PM

Pretty sure I had to program mine on the main to get settings to save correctly. 

Shaun

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