Let’s look at the Central of Georgia #630.
I installed the Lenz decoder for motor and lights and pro-
grammed it to a short address of 30 and a long address of 630,
with the short address active. I created a DecoderPro file for
this decoder, called 630-motor.
Then I connected the DSX decoder to the speaker (to provide a
load for programming) and clipped the track leads to my pro-
gramming track – the loco was NOT on the track. I programmed
the DSX to a short address of 6 and a long address of 630, with
the short address active. The DecoderPro file for the DSX was
called 630-sound.
When I finished the installation, the loco would run on address
30, but the sound controls were on address 6. So, I created a
consist with 30 and 6 to run the loco while I used DecoderPro
to tune the lights, motor and sound to my desires, using pro-
gramming on the main and the two definition files previously
created. DecoderPro will allow you to have two decoder files
open and program on the main from either of them.
When I was happy, I changed both DecoderPro files to utilize
the long addresses and wrote those changes to the locomotive.
The loco then ran as 630.
Future adjustments are easy, just set the decoders both back to
the short address mode, run them as a consist while you tinker.
Put them back in long address mode to finish.
From Mr. DCC’s workbench
– One Loco with Two Decoders
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