Greg, the AW is close to DCC but doesn’t have the constant memory of a DCC system. With AW you have to tell it to remember and to forget.
Vincent, first i apologize because i am terrible at describing this in text. I assume you are running the T5000? If so it all depends on how you want to operate your transmitter (TX). If to run a loco you use #LOCO# and just do direct operation then the loco is not in the memory bank and when the TX is shut down it loses what it was doing. You need to enter the loco in the memory of the TX.
Once you have your locos in the memory you bring them up with the loco memory button (blue top right corner). You scroll through the locos with the throttle knob and select the desired loco with the # enter/yes key (green bottom right corner).
Once your loco is chosen, operate as wanted. If you want to keep the loco doing the same thing while you change to another loco or just set the TX down, double click the loco/memory button. This locks the loco in in it’s current state. Turn the TX off, run another loco or 6 and the loco saved in memory will keep doing the same thing. I believe you can do this with up to 10 locos at a time.
READ THIS—> here’s the catch. When the loco is brought to a stop whenever you are done running it you make it remember that it is stopped by double clicking the loco/memory button when it is at zero speed steps. If not, when you bring the loco back up from memory it will remember the last thing you locked in. I found this out the hard way when I was programming sound. I set the loco on my workbench turned it on, then turned on the controller and the last program I set in it’s memory was speed step 40. Like a rocket it shot off the side…
If what i described doesn’t make sense PM me and we’ll exchange numbers and talk on the phone. Or, you can call Al at CVP and he’ll walk you through it. My description sounds overly complicated but it really isn’t.
Terry
