I'm confused. When you say the "loco may have lost it's address entry", what does that mean? That the decoder lost it's address or that it's no longer in the throttle? The first is a decoder problem; the 2nd may be a command station issue, but do you expect the throttle to still be controlling the same address after you shut down both the command station and the throttle?When you say the loco has no sound, do you mean that it is silent upon layout start up? Or that the loco won't make sound no matter what? In either case, that sounds more like a decoder issue. Many modelers, including myself, prefer not having every sound engine start up upon layout power turning on. Most of us consider that a blessing.
Paul A. Cutler III
Sounds like maybe the coin cell battery in the DCS100 is dead and not retaining the settings. There's actually space inside for 2 batteries, but only 1 is needed, the second slot is so you can replace the existing battery with a new one and not erase everything, but if the original one is already partly dead....
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Try putting the battery in properly and connecting its tether prior to powerup.
I've been using a new Digitrax Super Chief Xtra Duplex for a few weeks now. *Almost* everytime I fire the system up, it seems something was not retained from the previous session. After I turn on the power supply(s) and Command/Booster, and then turn on the throttle (inverting the battery), the throttle initializes. I turn on track power. And one or the other loco may have lost it's address entry, or no sound, etc. After fiddiling around for a few minutes, turning everything off, then on again, pressing the throttle knobs and such, somehow I eventually get everything to work. What sequence of events gets me to this point I don't know. Occasionally everything starts up as it should.
Is there some sort of procedure that I have to follow for both shutting down and starting up the system so I don't encounter these problems. I really hate spending the first 10-15 minutes trying to get everything back to work.