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Program DCC Long and Short Address
Joe has a question for the DCC pros and asks:
“I have an Atlas dash 8 with DCC and Sound and a few days ago it was running the way it should be, but I had to do some work with replacing some track. Over the Christmas I didn’t get anything done. Tonight I put the loco on the track and it will only work with the short address of 3.
I started over and programed the short address. I then put it on the main track to program the long address and it said the long address when I hit enter. However, it won’t do anything but sit there with the long address. If I put in the short address, which I don’t want to use because I am going to a train show in the morning to buy another Atlas with DCC and Sound and can’t keep two with the same short address. When I run it with the short address it won’t go over 28 MPH using the NCE Power Cab which is the same one it used to run okay with about a week ago. Can someone guide me please?”
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Reset the decoder back to factory default and reprogram the address you want
Joe, Try changing the short address first – to something other than the default of 3. Once you’ve successfully changed the short address, then add the long address. Hope this helps.
Cheers
Alan