12-16-2012, 03:50 PM
I did my first troubleshooting today: I started with a pair of Atlas GP38s with the factory-installed decoder that can be switched from DC to DCC using a jumper on the PC board. I'd taken two of them to a DCC layout and had changed the jumper to DCC mode, but they never ran or were programmed on that layout. I took one out and put it on the track with my newly installed DCC system, tried a "select loco" with address 3, but nothing happened. Tried it with a long address of the loco cab number, but nothing happened. Much searching in the manual and on the web, no joy. Finally found a site that said the Atlas loco was factory set to a short address that was the same as the last two cab numbers. It worked! Also found that you had to program on the programming track to get the new long address to stick.
When I worked for a living, I discovered that reading the manual wasn't always the answer. The support people always hated me when I told them that.
When I worked for a living, I discovered that reading the manual wasn't always the answer. The support people always hated me when I told them that.