From Mr. DCC’s workbench
– Your Digitrax system can wake up HAPPY
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OpSw 5 – I don’t know exactly what it does, but Digitrax recom-
mends closing it. I don’t understand why they don’t have the
default setting for whatever behavior they recommend.
OpSw 6 – If you are using circuit breakers to divide up your lay-
out, close OpSw 6. That changes the booster shutdown time
from 200 to 600 mS – from just under ¼ second to over ½ sec-
ond. This gives the circuit breakers more time react before the
booster shuts down and takes several districts with it.
OpSw 20 – Unless you are using your DCC system to run locos
without decoders (a practice I recommend against), close
OpSw 20. This will disable address 0000 running DC locomo-
tives. The real reason for this is to stop the pulse stretching
necessary to run DC locos. This will keep that feature from
slowing down the DCC system response.
OpSw 33 and OpSw 34 – close these to have your system wake
up and be ready to run when you apply power to the system.
This saves you button presses on your DT-400 series throttle
every time you power up.
DCC Impulses Column - 9
MRH-Sep 2013
