Owner's Manual

BASIC PROGRAMMING NOTES

DCC & SOUND EQUIPPED MODELS

Customizing the programming in your DCC & Sound Equipped model is yet

another way to get more enjoyment from your investment. With a few basic

guidelines, customizing can be easily done. You may also wish to have the

manual for your DCC system handy as well in case a refresher is necessary.

It is recommended that you use Paged Mode programming to adjust

CV settings on your DCC system’s programming track. While this is the

recommended mode, Direct Mode may also be used and in many cases,

except a decoder reset, some adjustments can be made with Programming

on the Main (i.e. address programming, master volume change, horn or

bell choice, etc). An auxilliary programming track booster is not necessary

to program an ESU decoder and can interfere with programming in some

instances. DCC CVs cannot be adjusted if you are operating your DCC &

Sound Equipped model on a DC powered track.

If you will operate your C44-9W on DCC, it is recommended that you

download, read and understand the appropriate Loksound decoder manual

for the decoder in use in your model. The V5 manual is document # 51989 on

the ESU download webpage at www.LokSound.com and is correct for all DCC

& Sound Equipped models produced after January 2019.

DIGITRAX CV PROGRAMMING FOR CVs OVER 255

Some older Digitrax DCC systems do not allow programming of CVs above

255. In order to make full programming possible, we have implemented

an assistance tool. This helps to write the number of the CVs desired

temporarily into two assisting CVs (so-called address registers), since the

usual CVs cannot be reached. Afterwards, the value of the CV desired will

be programmed into another assisting CV (value register). When the value

and the assisting CV will be set back. Consequently, 3 CVs have to be

programmed to write one CV. These three CVs are described in the following

text:

CV96 - Name Offset CV - Saves the CV number that should be actually

programmed in hundreds. Value Range: 0 to 9.

CV97 - Address CV - Saves the CV number that should be actually

programmed in units of tens. Value Range: 0 to 99.

CV99 - Value CV - Saves the value of the CV that should be actually

programmed. Value Range: 0 to 255.

Example: Need to program CV317 to value of 120.

Program the value of the CV number in hundreds into CV96.

In this example: CV96 = 3

Program the value of the CV number in tens and ones into CV97.

In this example: CV97 = 17

Program the desired value of the target CV into CV99.

In this example: CV99 = 120