Electronics and DCC

jbinkley60:

rrinker:

 Not for motor control - just dial up the loco on the opposite end when you go 'backwards' with the consist so you have control of the lights and horn adn bell in the 'lead' loco.

Like so: 1000--1001--1002 all consisted with Advanced Consisting on consist 10, with 1002 leading. Dial 10 on the right throttle to control speed and direction of the consist. Dial 1002 on the left to control the lights and horn without all that silly "which function is active in a consist" programming. Now you reach the end of the line and want to go back the other way. Keep 10 on the right knob, but now dial 1000 on the left so when you blow the horn the one in 1000 sounds instead of 1002. Or if 1001 is the only unit with a sound decoder, dial that one on the left.

                                     --Randy

You can do that with universal consisting too.  That is actually what I tested.  The difference was the right knob was the top locomotive 4 digit address, not a  2 digit advanced consist address.  It should work exactly as you describe for advanced consisting too. 

 

 Well, the idea was to save on slot usage by using CV19 consisting. On a 3 unit consist that only saves one, because you have the consist address plus the lead loco selected, but on a 4 unit consist it saves 2, 5 units saves 3, etc.

 Something else to work on, a JMRI script that periodically clears idle slots. Rather than have someone constantly checking to keep the system from running out of slots, it probably could be automated, so slots are cleared faster than the command station does it to avoid slot full errors.

                                                      --Randy

                                        --Randy

I´ve a NCE PowerCab. No problems, but: a) it starts in 28 speed steps, so I manually must turn to 128; b) needs a switch on/off in the handheld; and c) needs a short circuit light or noticeable device. Bye

tstage:

Although I've been quite content with my NCE Power Cab these past three years, I sometimes wish it had a recall stack larger than just two locomotives.  Other than that, I have no complaints.

Tom

It has 6 recalls in the stack if you read the instructions that came with it and set it up properly.

NCE seems to have taken lessons from Microsoft when they designated the key usage -- Press Emergency Stop to Turn On the wireless controller.  Say what?  Press EXPN and then the Number 1 button to turn off the wireless controller.  Why couldn't they have added a simple ON/OFF button?

If you inadvertently press the PROGRAM key instead of EXPN, which is easy to do because they are right next to each other, you then have to continue pressing PROGRAM through 10 or so steps before you get back to the first screen and can then turn the throttle off.

Nothing, I have had NCE since 2000, powerpro with 4 boosters, I like everything about it, or I wouldn't have kept it.

Bob

 I have the MRC Prodigy Advance with 2 wired throttles and 2 wireless.  All work just fine.  I designated the wireless as 'road' throttles and the wired ones as 'yard' throttles, one near each of the yard areas on my layout. 

 As has been posed, each throttle unit has to have a unique, sequential cab number assigned.  This goes also for when you might have a buddy come over to operate with their cab; be sure to assign it the next cab number available.  Also note that after a certain number of cabs, there is a selector on the base station to allow more throttles (I think the number is 4 or 5). 

Detlef

When operating on other model railroad layouts I find that they seem to have unexplained run-aways or I have to keep plugging the keypad back into the front panel to keep control of my train.

This has been on several different layouts at different time so it can not be attribuited to a same day type of problem.

These were Radio DCC systems.  And when I ask about these problems I was informed that Yes we have them occasionally but are just used to plugging them back in or continually pressing the Select button to reacquire the engine.

Oh BTW these layouts used the NCE system!

BOB H - Clarion, PA

cacole:

tstage:

Although I've been quite content with my NCE Power Cab these past three years, I sometimes wish it had a recall stack larger than just two locomotives.  Other than that, I have no complaints.

Tom

 

It has 6 recalls in the stack if you read the instructions that came with it and set it up properly.

 Okay, cacole, I'll bite. As the happy owner of a PowerCab system, I'd love to know how to put 6 locos in the stack. I've read the manual through more than once and don't see what you are referring to. What's the trick, please?