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CVP throttles do remember addresses and yes, if you leave the throttle set at full speed and aquire a loco with it, it will take off at full speed. The way the wireless loco aquisition works is that you punch the pound key on the wireless, type in the new loco's address hit pound again and wait about 10 seconds for the leds to stop flashing. When they stop, you have control of the loco. Simple and effective. Some guys have mounted velcro stickys on the throttles with interchangeable loco numbers so they can see what throttle is assigned to which loco between sessions without having to look it up on the command station. I have never aquired a loco and left the throttle at full speed. Most people turn their throttles off before aquiring a loco. Since the speed control is a knob, it is easy to tell when it is off and the idea that one might mistakenly aquire the loco and run it off the siding accidentally at full speed is possible, but in my experience is basically a non issue The system doesn't lend itself well to juggling trains by shifting one throttle on the fly between several locos running at once because of the slight lag time in loco aquisition (CVP has shortened this time in recent update). While I have tried running this way with three throttles assigned to different locos on the same track (all controlled by a single operator), it is not my preferred style of operation because the possibility for accidents is too high (and it is not my operational style). In DCC cornfield meets do happen. One mistake on my part and my string of board by board, superdetailed, wooden side dump gons is rear ended by a consolidation and they are on the floor. I generally try to operate in a prototypical manner, so I generally avoid this kind of stuff with the exception of what if... While the one way system doesn't have all the bells and whistles that other two way systems have, it has clear simple inidcators for speed, direction, and a set of function keys. It is a very simple and reliable system. I find I don't need all the other stuff to run trains. Guy
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