DCC on Engines

[chevi54]

How do you know you are looking at a locomotive with DCC if you have no paperwork to refer to?

[Frisco]

What locomotive do you have?

[Jim Banner]

I check to see if a locomotive has a working decoder by trying to read back some CVs.  If I suspect it has a decoder that does not support reading back, I attempt to program CV01 to 03 and CV29 to 00.  Then I try to run the locomotive on address 03 using 14 speed steps.  If it runs, it has a working decoder.  If it does not, it has not.

[C.S.R.R. Manager]

If you can tell us what the wheel arrangement is, we can probably tell you if it's DCC or not.  Or refer to the Products section of this website.