Resetting NCE Switch 8's

Model Railroader Electronics and DCC
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Hi

I have 4 NCE switch 8’s controlling 29 Tortoise switch motors. Programming these is straightforward enough (apart from determining which way the arrow points on the white selector switch!)

If I want to re-program them all again, is there a way of returning Switch 8’s to the factory default or zeroising the addresses? I am concerned that re-programming the Switch 8’s one address at a time will mean I have duplicated addresses and switching using NCE PowerPro will get confused.

Thanks

Barry

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I think a quick call to NCE this morning will get you a faster answer.

Be sure to let us know what they say.

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The documentation for the Switch8 tells how to reset the addresses using your DCC system, but does not say how to perform a complete reset.

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Hi

I contacted NCE and there is no total reset on the Switch 8.

Thought you would like to know.

Barry

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Glad you got the answer. BTW, sorry, when I made my give them a call suggestion I didn’t see that you were in another time zone!

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All that will happen if you overlap address while programming is that a different turnout will move while programming the new one.

SO if you current have:

Switch-8 A 101-108

Switch-8 B 201-208

Switch-8 C 301-308

And now you want to make Switch-8 A port 1 use address 305 instead of 101, the turnout connected to switch-8 C port 5 will move while you program unit A. Then you cna go to unit C and change the address on port 5 from 305 to something else.

It’s not going to hurt anything to have the temporary overlap while going through each one and programming it. You just can;t leave it that way, or you will have some interesting and confusing results later on.

–Randy

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Hi Maxman

No worries! I emailed and they came back in about an hour which was very prompt.

Thanks

Barry

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Thanks Randy

Yes, I thought this was the case but wanted a clean slate to start from. I’ll do it all this way which was my original thought.

Thanks again

Barry