I assumed he meant it kept accelerating allt he way to step 28 - NCE defaults to 28 step control as opposed to 128 which Digitrax does, but the CV29 settings are the same. The Zephyr has an option on the console that puts a speed limit on all locos by limiting the max throttle kbob position. That only affects those locos controlled by the console throttle, not any add-ons. Setting the decoder max speed sets it for the loco regardless of where it's controlled from or what system is used.
Setting CV5 to reduce the top speed also results in somewhat finer control, as the same number of speed steps is now divided up by a lesser total change in speed (from stop to the now reduced maximum speed), so each step is a correspondingly smaller change in speed.
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JWK Railway My new engine a Bachmann Alco S-2 is set for a speed of max. 028. How do I set this down to a max. 010 (to keep the grandkids from speeding thru the yard.) NCE system. Programing track or main?
My new engine a Bachmann Alco S-2 is set for a speed of max. 028. How do I set this down to a max. 010 (to keep the grandkids from speeding thru the yard.) NCE system. Programing track or main?
CV2 is start voltage while CV6 is mid voltage. All 3 (2,6 and 5) do affect each other to a small extent.
Peter
Thank you. Works great. I even went to CV6 (on a guess) and slowed up my start-up speed.
CV5, top speed, it the one you want. You can set it anywhere, main or program track. Doing it on the main will let you see the results immediately. Try setting it to 128 to start, that's half the usual max value so the top speed should go down to about half of what it was. If that's still too fast, keep lowering it. If it's too slow now, increase it.