DCC Impulses Column - 2
1: Loco with a short cab address of 4 – I run it as a long
address on NCE by programming it as a long address and
selecting it as 04.
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Types of Addresses
There are three types of addresses:
Short, stored in CV 1
Long, stored in CVs 17 & 18
Consist, stored in CV 19
Initially, DCC systems only recognized addresses from 1 to 127
and they were stored in CV 1. Storing a value of zero (0) in CV1
will force the decoder OUT of DCC mode and into using an alter-
nate power source defined by CV 12. Usually that is DC mode.
It was realized quickly that limiting the system to 127 rather
arbitrary numbers was a serious limitation and the concept of
the long, or extended, (sometimes incorrectly called 4-digit)
MRH-Feb 2013
