dcc newbie follows advice = isolated program track

[nyc4me]

Learned a lesson last night. Make a isolated programming track block. Yes, just like I've been well advised by some of you, and various manuals. Figured nah, too small a layout. Don't need it. Not so. My Bachman 2-8-0 headlight went into flashing strobe mode.  I was turning individual sounds down on a BLI 2-8-2. At first I thought oh no, the consol with the TCS decoder can't coexist peacefully with the BLI. When the Mike went to Chicago (the drawer) and the strobe effect continued, it dawned on me to check the cv's.  Sure enough the headlight cv is 49, same as the BLI individual sound cv. I must have recalled the consol by some dumb keystroke.  I'll be darned. I thought I was smarter than that!  Dc for a long time but new to dcc, bought NCE Power Cab. Am receiving refreshers in humility and how to pay attention to instructions, and heed good advice. Thanks for sharing, this event, and past advice.  

[selector]

I have known instantly it happened, several times now, that I had forgotten to ensure that my Digitrax DT 400 was in Ops Mode, and not Paged Mode when programming a certain locomotive.  When you press "Enter" to upload the change(s), the Digitrax system that I have shuts down power to the track immediatelyin Paged Mode...so the deafening silence following the beep acknowledging the change leaves me stunned...and feeling the same...if you catch my meaning. 

We all make these errors now and then.  Thanks for coming clean.