Last night I and two guests had my first real operation session on my HO scale Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburgh division of the B&O. 11 trains were run: 2 local freights, one M&K turn, 2 passenger trains and 6 coal extras (2 Western Maryland RR). Lots of switching. It lasted about 2 hours. Learned a lot for future sessions. Basic design is sound (nothing like following a specific prototype). A few turnouts have electrical problems: on a DCC layout route-selective turnouts are a problem. Without boosters and dividing the layout into sections, a short shuts down everyone. No one knows how to increase the slots on a Digitrax system. Everyone seemed to have a good time.
I plan on having another session in a month or so. I’ll pull the misbehaving turnouts and replace them, fix the bad order cars, and find the Digitrax manuals. Consider power districts. - Nevin
It sounds like you had a good time, the odd problem notwithstanding. Nice to hear.
By slot, do you mean stack? The recall stack on DT400’s is easy to lenghten. I had to do that recently due to recently acquired locos, and it worked as the manual said.
Sorry, my ISP was down most of the day. On page 74 of the manual, it directs you to press the option key, after which the display will show the current option setting. The option you want is the third (#3) of those changeable. So, you have to continue to press the option key until #3 is displayed (it will be in hex, so “x03”). At this point, you will use the throttle knob, twirling it, to set the hex code to the desured numberin Table VI, on page 79. I like low intensity and a 24 hour clock (military background, and the railroads use it, too), plus I only need 8 stack positions, so I dialled in a hex value of x15 (didn’t want tetherless release, either). Press “Enter”, and you have a whole new throttle configuration.
I hope that helps. Caution: I have only done it once, a couple of months ago, so I am just going by what the manual says.