track – sort of like a hardware version of blast mode
programming.
The NCE PowerCab has a single 2-pin track connector. It
functions as the DCC track bus for the most part. When
the PowerCab is put into service-mode programming, that
single output becomes the programming track. If you use
an external booster, like the NCE SB5 or a Tam Valley Depot
booster, this possibility is eliminated. The PowerCab loses its
programming abilities while plugged into a SB5 and the Tam
“Assure that you are, indeed, program-
ming-on-the-main. Your system should
ask for an address to receive the data. If
you aren’t asked for an address, beware.
Don’t use address 0, as you’ll probably be
in blast mode.”
