DCC Programming Track Tips
DCC tips, tricks, and techniques
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n prior columns, I’ve talked around programming tracks.
I decided it was time to go straight ahead and talk about
them. Part of this was prompted by a recent discussion on
an email group about programming track isolation and other
issues. While a lot of this material has been mentioned before
in passing, the focus of this column is to bring all the data into
one place. Repetition reminds us of things we may have forgot-
ten. I’ll bet that there will be at least one tidbit here for every
DCC user who reads this missive.
What is programming?
While there are many things on a DCC layout that can be cus-
tomized, most frequently, when one is programming, one is
setting up the personality of a locomotive by adjusting CV val-
ues stored in the decoder. That is the definition of program-
ming that I’m addressing in this column.
DCC Impulses column
by Bruce Petrarca
Photos and illustrations by author
Some thoughts on programming and tracks ...
DCC Impulses Column - 1
MRH-May 2014
