if you have a reversing loop on your DCC layout and you want to reverse that
turnout on it automatically you're gonna want to see this
I'm Tom Kvichak and this is Toms Trains and Things this channel was
created to help other modelers for a need of guidance in pursuing their dream
of building a model railroad if you have a reversing section on your layout and
you have that problem turn out right there that you always have to flip
manually I'm going to show you how you could do it automatically if you're
using a tortoise switch machine it's very simple and it works very well and
it's been around for a long time so I don't know why everybody doesn't have
them on there reversing loops already so right after this we're going to show you
what it is if you would like to see more videos like this about DCC about DC
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right now this is what I'm talking about right here DCC Specialties Hare
version 2 now the version 2 has feedback so it lets you know if you're using
digitrax lenz and nce what way your turnout is once you turn it the version
1 doesn't give you the feedback on it so we're gonna talk about the version 2 on
here I just picked this up a couple of weeks ago and I'm gonna show you how to
set it up now this is gonna be a two-part thing because I'm gonna put it
on my layout underneath those buildings back there on the lower level where I
have a reversing loop but the only issue right now is I'm having issues with my
back so I can't get in there and use my motor tool climb up on top of here and
cut some gaps extra gaps in the track so that's gonna be coming up soon but what
I'm gonna do today is tell you how you could program it on
bench and show you the basics of it and get you started on it so you could use
your hair too on your layout on your tortoise which machine so you could
reverse that loop without any issues you could just run your train through there
go around the loop and it'll automatically reverse that switch so you
could go on out and go on your merry way before we get started with the
programming on this I want to show you how the board sits on the tortoise which
machine now you want to have it in this configuration right here now it'll work
in the reverse of this but you would have to program everything backwards on
it but say you're up against the your bench work and that prevents you from
mounting it in the normal way you could always turn this around the other way
that you have to program it a little bit different so I just wanted to let you
know that before I showed you how to program it and we're going to show you
the connectors on here here's the main connectors on there there's 12 pins on
there your track power is on pins 1 & 2 and I'll bring up a diagram showing you
what the other pins on there for this little jumper right here is the program
jumper now in the position that is right now it's in the program mode this is how
it came from the factory it's in the program mode right there and this
connector right here is j-3 and that is for your feedback that you hook back up
into you like say on your digit racks des 64 these are your dip switches on
here there's ten switches on there under normal conditions all the switches are
in the off position which is down this way here okay
these eight soldering pads right there is a duplicate of what's on the tortoise
which machine and the other connector on here on the bottom is what plugs into
your tortoise switch machine the way the tortoise is set up and even on these
real good connectors right here the plug is still bigger than the edge
card connector on the tortoise so you have to be careful when you're placing
it on there and what everybody recommends is putting now they say flat
toothpick on this one here on the other one I use a round toothpick but a flat
toothpick will work on both sides of this just to keep the edge card centered
on the plug but anyway let's get started with the programming of this and just
make sure that when you have it that this jumper right here is on those two
pins pin number one and number two and after you have it programmed you could
pull this out and then put it back up on two and three so we're going to start
off by programming it there are specific instructions for each manufacturer and
I'll put graphic up over here but I'm using digit tracks and there's one thing
about digitrax whenever you turn it on it sends out eight addresses out to the
track so I'm putting a switch on the hair so I can turn the power off to the
hair while I turn track power on the system now that only happens on the
digit track so you don't have to worry about that on any other components
whenever you're doing the program is for the Seavey's it has to be in ops mode
I'm gonna start you off by showing you how to program and address and the
Seavey's in the hair now there is a cv on there where you could reset
everything just in case you make mistakes because you could put one
address in there and which is the main address and you could put twenty eight
additional root addresses in there and if you make a mistake along the way you
could go out and wipe that all out and start over or you could go to specific
ones by setting cv sixty-three now cv sixty three setting it at forty two will
reset everything to the factory defaults and I'll show you how to do that first
thing we want to do is we want to set cv forty nine
to zero that's the normal operation and we want to give it an address so I'll
show you how to do that right down here okay let's apply power go power here and
then yes you can see the little dot right there that we have power on here
now that we have power on there we're going to wait a few seconds to let all
the addresses go through so we'll flip this over here so the power is on this
board right now they should have a like a little indicator that shows you that
the power is on to the board but anyway we're going to assume the power is on to
the board and we're going to do a factory reset on this just in case there
was anything on here so we'll go to program will go into ops mode and we'll
program number 63 240 to hit enter and you can see that that lit up right there
so that reset everything on there so now what we want to do we want to exit out
of the program okay now we want to go to switch all right and we want to do
switch number 22 and we just have to hit no it's on see right now we'll hit T and
you can see that that lit up so let me undo this turn the power off to it
okay power is off bring that down do this what I'm going to do is put this
into the run mode change the jumper over here
I'm going to put this right there
alright now let me put it this way right here so you can see the arm on there all
right we'll put power back on
we'll go power get power yes okay we got the indication that power is on now I
didn't have to do that but all right so we're going to go to switch 22 and we'll
pick close oh okay the throne and melt to close all right
one thing you have to take into consideration while attaching your track
power on the hair is your throw rail power goes on number one and you're
clear rail power goes on number two now if you have one turnout that's going
right and another turn off that's going left on the same track the wires going
to one and two will be different on the two turnouts so just remember that when
you're wiring up your hair I'll be doing another video on this when I install it
on my layout and I'll go a little bit further into programming now you can
program up to 28 additional routes in this and I'm going to show you how to do
that I'm gonna put a couple of extra ones in in the next video
so when and the reason I'm going to do that is whenever I turn the turn power
on to my system and I'll do it like right here
and I don't know if you'll be able to hear it but a lot of the turnouts will
switch over to the opposite side so I'm going to set a CV in there so whenever I
turn it on and the turnouts going in the opposite direction I'll be able to hit
that one switch and it will turn it back into the direction that I want it to and
we'll go over that in the next video so don't forget Monday Wednesday and
Saturday videos and we'll see you I just wanted to let you know that before I
showed you how to program it and we're going to show you this and we're going
to show you the connectors on here
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