NCE POWER CAB SET UP

Good video I have had my powercab sitting in box for a year after watching this I feel ready to setup!

Hello Grande pacific and i like your video is cool &THANKS & Friends Randy

I bought mine today. This is the video that pushed me to it. Thank you!

i Have been watching your video over this past week. my dad brother and i are setting up a Dcc ho layout using digitrax. I am designing my own layout for n -Scale and was planing to use DCC, but i didn't want to use the DIGitrax system and with your videos it has helped me choose NCE

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Thank you for this video.I was confused before.

I just watched both pt. 1 and 2 of your video about setting up the NCE UTP panels. You have provided me with so much information. Now watching Power Cab set video. This is great!! Thank you for taking the time.

ha great video now I know what to look forward to I will be ordering one next month! and thanks and enjoy your videos. Subscribed!

Hey I wanted to Thank You for your video's . I just ordered my NEC Power Cab today from Model Train Stuff . I had a layout when I was a kid a 4x8 one . Starting up a new  layout , the NEC system  seem like a good one too expand on . Keep up the great video's lot's of good info for us newbies. This is my first layout using DCC I'm really excited the loco's sound great and look so much better than the ones I had in the 70"s .

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Yes, you can have a long cable from pcp or upt to controller. I have one that is 15ft.

Great video Arthur. I've been looking at this system. I've seen conflicting reports about how many engines you can run simultaneously with the NCE Power Cab? I've heard anywhere from 2 to 5 to 8. I'd be interested to know your thoughts. Thank you.

Great how to video. Need to get one of this.  My old DCC system only has 4 functions and can´t consist engines.

Power Cab will work great for you.

You can run 4 new modern can motor locos. You can add a sb5 smart booster that will be 5 amps. The question is how large is layout and what do you plan on doing.

Loco stalling, first clean wheels and track, oil wheel bearings. Get a LED 3mm put 1000 ohm. Resistor on it to insure you are getting voltage. This is test light. You need to insure you are getting juice to all parts of track. More feeders and soldering rail joiners will help. One engine running you do not need sb5.

just started, thanks for the grounds up explanation on this controller. it was highly recommended . What would power switch machines ? a separate transformer ?

Can you use the NCE system for DC trains too? I'm considering about buy this if it can run with DC train because most of my train i have are DC.

Hi Arthur, Thanks for your videos and I have subscribed!  I recently purchased the NCE Powerhouse Pro r (wireless 10 amp DCC system, so hope you don't mind helping me if that's OK?> I purchased this system recently, and just now got a chance to start testing it with a couple different decoders (the one included with the system NCE D408SR & a ESU LokSound XL V4.0). I am modeling G Scale LGB & Bachmann Spectrum locos and have isolated 2 moguls so far in order to install DCC decoders   Problem is that it seems to be auto reversing as if the booster is treating the track like it is a reverse loop (and I have the switch set to normal on the booster), yet I am not using a loop but rather a 48 inch section of LGB track for testing purposes. o my bench (and have already experienced a run away due to the system resetting and then auto-reversing the loco direction.  Sometimes I will turn on the system and instead of moving in the forward direction, instead will be going in reverse, even though when I last powered off the system it was set to forward (again acts like the booster has auto reversed the track power)?  Sometimes while operating, it will seem to auto switch to the opposite direction, but this seems to be happening more in Wireless operation, and I have set/programmed the loco to not use DC, but DCC only..  Not sure if it is in the Pro Cab hammer head control throttle that is the problem, or if its in the booster or command station, but have noticed when the reset occurs the Pro Cab LCD screen with flash the second screen of bootup before going to normal operation status...but again operation will be reversed and not corresponding to the correct orientation of train direction as compared to the controller normal operation.  I have also noticed that when using it as wireless if I'm using yard mode (meaning I can use the encoder wheel to scroll forward and train will move in that direction until I scroll it backwards and it will find a center stop and if I continue in that direction it moves in reverse), It seems If I'm doing this and especially if scrolling back and forth rapidly, then I will see the Pro Cab Throttle LED show what looks like a momentary reset as mentioned above...like when the system is first turned on  2nd screen...showing the software version, and then after that the direction controls will be reversed.  And this will keep doing this  as I keep using it. Again it is acting like something may be wrong with either the Pro Cab Throttle, the booster or perhaps even the wireless antenna box, or perhaps it may be in the Brutus power supply not providing constant regulated power?  I cannot be for sure it is the pro cab wireless throttle alone or / and if it may be something working incorrectly with the booster or Command station.  Have you ever heard of this happening before?  Might you know the problems that is causing this?  Both engines/locomotives have been isolated and 2 different manufacturer's decoders, so I doubt this could be due to the Locos or their decoders, but perhaps there is something I missed when doing the isolation process or decoder installation, but I doubt it as I try to research, study and be very thorough before doing anything.  These are two LGB Moguls, so isolating the motor from the contacts & wheels to the rails was straight forward. You can contact me at [email protected] Any thoughts & help is very appreciated! Tracy

Good afternoon. I am in a jam; I just received a Althern GP50 HO scale locomotive off Ebay that already has a digital address of #3150 programmed with the seller's NCE DCC programmer. I only have Bachmann's EZ Command DCC Controller that only provides single (#1-9) digit addresses. I spoke to Train World in Brooklyn, called Bachmann and NCE ... none could help me. If I purchase a NCE Power Cab starter set, can I run that locomotive with the existing #3150 address?