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1. Doppler Off Engine sounds will initially drop then build to a peak before fading away Press the DOPPLER button again after the effect has played to turn the feature off and return the locomotive to normal engine sounds See the Doppler Setup instructions in the Advanced Menu portion of the Menu Operation chapter s for how to set an engine to play the Doppler effect every time it passes a certain place on your layout E STOP Emergency Stop This button instantly cuts power to all tracks connected to your TIU s You need to turn off power at the transformer power down the remote return power and re access and start up engines like a new session in order to continue opera tion Note If the TIU is powered by an auxil iary power supply that power source must be unplugged and plugged back in before the TIU will reset 31 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation Softkeys S1 S5 Softkeys are designed to serve different functions with different engines rather than have a fixed function like the other One Touch keys This flexibility is impor tant because the wide variety of M T H engines has an equally wide range of appropriate operating features For instance a modern diesel has very different operational features than an early twentieth century steamer The appropriate options for each engine are displayed on the LCD as you control that locomotive2. running Smoke output in diesel engines increases or decreases relative to engine REV levels Note Your engine s default setting is to go into labor drift mode automatically when the system senses that speed has changed As soon as you use this rocker switch the system is changed from Auto to Manual setting To put the Labor Drift setting back into Auto you must do it through the menu See the System Menu Proto Chuff section of the Menu Operations chapter s of this manual for instructions Boost Brake Press and hold top end of rocker switch to temporarily increase speed of the selected engine OR Press and hold bottom end of rocker switch to temporarily decrease speed of the selected engine The speed will continue to change keep getting faster or slower for as long as the button is pressed before resuming the set speed when you release the button Please see Page 55 for more on Boost Brake Operation 26 Caution Operating your engine in Labor or Rev Up mode with increased smoke output for extended periods of time uses large quantities of smoke fluid and may cause the wick to burn if it is not replenished Check your smoke fluid levels more frequently than normal if you frequently operate in labor rev up mode DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation CPLR F CPLR R Press top end of rocker switch to fire the front coupler if your locomotive is equipped with one OR Press bot
3. 3 Chapter 3 Labor Drift 25 Boost Brake 26 Coupler Front Rear 27 Smoke On Off 27 Volume Increase 27 Start Up 28 Engine Sound On Off 28 Volume Decrease 28 Shut Down 29 Headlight On Off 29 ProtoCast On Off 29 Passenger Freight Announcements 30 Read 31 Doppler On Off 31 Emergency Stop 31 Softkeys 32 Backlight 35 Microphone 35 One Touch Locomotive Operation DCS Command System User s Guide 24 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation The most frequently accessed features can be controlled via the One Touch buttons on the DCS remote handheld These buttons will affect only the locomotive selected and shown in the LCD You can watch the LCD screen to see which engine you are address ing and what features you are turning off and on Many of the mos
4. To activate softkey features Press softkeys S1 S4 to activate the fea ture listed directly above each button Use S5 to scroll though the softkey list and access more softkey options for each engine Press the softkey S4 below More in the fourth and final softkey screen to access a list of additional softkey features you can scroll and select with your thumb wheel 32 Feature Key Features that start with S Sound features L Light Features M Menu Features that you must then setup F Function Features that you can turn on or off See the full chart in Appendix A DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation Softkeys S1 S5 cont d To re order softkey features It is possible to re order the softkeys so that the ones you use most often for a given locomotive are at the top of its list 1 Press the S4 softkey under More in the fourth softkey screen to access the complete scroll list of features 2 Scroll until the arrow points to the feature you want to move 3 Press the S2 key under Move 4 Scroll to the softkey s new location and press the thumbwheel to place it there To delete softkey features If for some reason you want to delete a softkey feature you may We encourage you to do this sparingly it is better to reorder softkeys so that those you do not use are at the bottom of the list 1 Press the S4 softkey under More in the fourt
5. h softkey screen to access the complete scroll list of features 2 Scroll until the arrow points to the feature you want to move 3 Press the S1 key under Del 4 Press the thumbwheel to confirm the deletion 33 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation Softkeys S1 S5 cont d To restore a deleted softkey Because softkeys are associated with an engine rather than the system itself restoring a deleted softkey can only be accomplished by deleting the engine it is associated with and then readding the engine See the System Menu section of the Menu Operation chapter s of this manual for instructions on deleting and adding engines 34 DCS Tip The system is designed to accommodate as many as 100 softkeys per engine as we think of new features to add Keep an eye on www protosound2 com or sign up for our free e newsletter for infor mation on the growing softkey chart DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation B L Press this button to turn Backlight of LCD screen ON amp OFF The back light is helpful for low light night time operation but it will reduce bat tery life so you may want to turn it off when operating in a well lit room MIC Press and hold this button to turn Proto Dispatch on Release the but ton to turn Proto Dispatch off The remote has a microphone built in so you can hold the MIC button down and speak int
6. ntly without lights or smoke ENG SND 4 Press this button to silence engine and accent sounds The horn and bell will still sound if triggered Press it again to restore sounds at the previous volume LCD will show Engine Snd On or Engine Snd Off VOL 5 Press this button to decrease all sound set volumes below the default settings until the engine falls silent LCD will show Master Volume Down The volume will decrease one level with each button push until you reach the minimum level and will remain at the level you set until you press Vol 2 to raise the volume To control the volume of individual ele ments of the sound set i e horn whistle volume bell volume engine sounds vol ume and accent sounds volume see the Sound menu in the Menu Operation chapter of this book 28 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation SHUT DOWN 6 Press this button to turn off sound smoke and lights in preparation for powering down LCD will show Shut Down Shut Down sounds will play and the engine will fall silent with the lights off though it will still move until you scroll to 0 smph Note that power is still on the track after shut down HDLT 7 With the engine stopped press this button to turn headlight on and off LCD will show Headlight On or Headlight Off PROTOCAST 8 To activate this feature you must fi
7. o the top of the remote to project your voice through the engine s speaker Your voice will be laid over the engine sounds to simu late a real announcement When the button is depressed Dispatch will appear on the LCD screen Alternately you can plug a micro phone into the TIU s Proto Dispatch Mic port and use that microphone 35 DCS Tip The handheld MIC broadcasts its signals over an AM frequency to incor porate a realistic static sound one might encounter with radios If you want static free voice recordings you should plug a microphone into the TIU and select that option for your voice over recording clips
8. rst onnect an audio source to the DCS system 1 Plug a male to male mini cable 1 8 plug like that used for the headset with a portable CD tape player or M T H Item No 50 1009 first into the Proto Cast port of the TIU then plug the other end of the cable into your audio source s headphone jack or line out jack 2 Play the recording according to the audio source s instructions 3 Press the PROTOCAST button to play the recording through your engine When the Proto Cast feature is enabled your regular engine sounds are silenced so that the recording may be heard clearly A C appears on the LCD to indicate that Proto Cast is in use 4 Press the button again to stop the feature and return to normal engine sounds 29 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation PROTOCAST 8 cont d You can use Proto Cast in only one engine at a time the active engineat the time the feature is selected Because Proto Cast uses a large share of the microprocessor s processing power in the TIU activating other features while run ning with Proto Cast may cause interrup tions in the audio PFA 9 1 Press this button to activate Passenger Freight Announcements LCD will show PFA On or PFA Off 2 Press the Direction button to stop the train then press it three more times paus ing for several second as described in your engine s conventional mode operating instructions
9. t commonly used One Touch buttons are located on the lower half of the remote LABOR REV UP DRIFT REV DN Press the top end of the rocker switch to change engine sounds to labored chuff or high er engine revolution levels without changing speed You will see an increase of smoke output corresponding to the sounds of the engine working harder and the LCD will show Labored Chuff Rev Up OR Press the bottom end of the rocker switch to change engine sounds to drift or lower revolution levels without changing speed You will see a decrease of smoke output corresponding to the sounds of the engine working less hard and the LCD will show Drift Chuff Rev Down For diesel or electric engines the change in sound will become more pronounced with each press of the switch until you reach the system limit of eight REV levels The sound level will remain as you set it until you press the opposite end of the rocker switch to return the engine sounds step by step to normal The system automatically resets the sound REV level to a protoypical level based on the engine s speed For steam engines as soon as you release the button the sound will return to the normal steam chuff setting 25 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation There are three degrees of chuff drift normal labor in steam engines and eight degrees of diesel revolutions above idle Your diesel s default rev sounds depend upon how fast it is
10. to cycle through the PFA sequences 3 When the entire PFA script has run the bell will begin to ring and the engine will pull out at the speed you had set when you pressed the PFA button If you wish to run the engine at a slower speed than when the PFA was activated scroll the SMPH to the desired speed When the engine begins to move scroll the SMPH one additional setting to lock in the new slower speed 30 DCS Tip Because Proto Cast sends such a large digital signal on the track it is impor tant that your track be clean when you run this feature If you get popping and distor tion while running Proto Cast please clean your track The large digital signal also means that playing the audio source too loudly can result in sound distortions resolve this by turning down the audio source volume DCS Tip If you want to stop the PFAs from running before the sequence is complete press the PFA button again to turn the feature off DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation READ If you are adding or removing engines on the track press READ to update the Active and Inactive Engine lists Alternately you can change the active status of each engine individually as described in the Selecting and Starting the Locomotive section in the Quick Start chapter of this manual DOPPLER 0 Press this button to activate the Proto Doppler feature for one time use LCD will show Doppler On or
11. tom end of rocker switch to fire the rear coupler When engine sounds are on coupler release sounds will play as the coupler is fired SMOKE 1 Press this button to turn the smoke unit on or off LCD will show Smoke On or Smoke Off Because of the way the smoke unit works it may take a few seconds after pushing the button before you see the smoke start or stop For instructions on setting the smoke density level to minimum medium or maximum please see the Control Menu in the Menu Operation chapter of this book VOL 2 Press this button to increase all sound set volumes above the default settings up to the maximum level allowed for the selected engine LCD will show Master Volume Up The volume will increase one level with each button push until you reach the max imum level and will remain at the level you set until you press Vol 5 to lower volume To control the volume of individual elements of the sound set i e horn whistle volume bell volume engine sounds volume and accent sounds volume see the Sound menu in the Menu Operation chapter of this book 27 DCS Command System User s Guide One Touch Locomotive Operation START UP 3 On start up with the engine stopped at 0 smph press the button to activate sound smoke and lights LCD will show Start Up A newly accessed engine that has not been started up will move but it will run sile
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