Hi,
I don't have any DCC equipment, or experience with it. I do have a 35-year-old Troller AutoPulse DC power pack with brake & momentum (remember those). So far I've been able to test the basic functions of the newer DCC/Sound offerings from Atlas, Athearn Genesis, and MTH with this old transformer... forward, reverse, start-up & run sounds, etc.
I now have a set of Bachmann HO FT A & B locos, factory DCC-Equipped "DCC on-board", neither of which respond at all to my DC power pack. The former owner has a 3-digit code "390" penciled on the end-panel of each unit's box. I guess this is a DCC loco ID code? It seems unlikely that both units are bad in the same way. Could someone tell me if there's a way to reset a Bachmann DCC-equipped unit by using only a DC power pack? (...and yes, according to the box, these units are backward compatible with DC.)
Thanks very much,
Norm Weiler
Branchville, NJ
I don't have any DCC equipment, or experience with it. I do have a 35-year-old Troller AutoPulse DC power pack with brake & momentum (remember those). So far I've been able to test the basic functions of the newer DCC/Sound offerings from Atlas, Athearn Genesis, and MTH with this old transformer... forward, reverse, start-up & run sounds, etc.
I now have a set of Bachmann HO FT A & B locos, factory DCC-Equipped "DCC on-board", neither of which respond at all to my DC power pack. The former owner has a 3-digit code "390" penciled on the end-panel of each unit's box. I guess this is a DCC loco ID code? It seems unlikely that both units are bad in the same way. Could someone tell me if there's a way to reset a Bachmann DCC-equipped unit by using only a DC power pack? (...and yes, according to the box, these units are backward compatible with DC.)
Thanks very much,
Norm Weiler
Branchville, NJ