Digitrax help please

[scootergoebel]

Getting things closer to figured out. Have a dt 100 control hooked to universal reciever ur91 thats hooked todb150, have a ps515 ckass 2 supply and a 6607 transformer. I repaired track that runs room to room in celing after a accident involveing a car going through wall in garage.I have voltage at tracks. I have new and other engines im trying to get going. New has decoder installed. Able to set location, cv65,66,67 on a program track. All selected and read good. How do i dispatch the train and others? I think im supposed to dis connectthe dt100 from the ur91 and hook to db150. I can only run 1 engine at a time and wuestion do i really need a confusing dcc set up. Used to be able to plug a teain in and move transformer one way or other and it worked. I get that the sounds and effects are cool but for now the nephue who drove through garage years ago wanted to see the train go around the room for xmas. Well maybe this new year?

[trainman203]

Maybe a Digitraxx question should be asked on a Digitraxx forum?

This is a forum for Bachmann products.

[Peeweedinkle]

I have just bought the bachmann rail chief ho scale train set. I am wanting to get a locomotive that has sound and smoke. I need someone to explain exactly what I need to buy to convert my set and please be patient as I am a rookie. Thanks

[scootergoebel]

Ive tryed things on dcc, every thing programs ok. Tried dc on test track. Nope . Its gonna be remove things in circuit till it moves. New train - check fuse- just twist wires together, check switch - just jump that - nope. Check relay - bypass that too. Remove every thing and hook direct to the rail no decoder. Send the full 17 volts and perhaps that might make it move. I been working on this for a couple years. I cant understand why digitrax says tru backman its there train. Backman says its digitrax. The big chain store in mlps has 1 guy that works 1 day a week some times - he is incharge for 2 locations. I apolgise for asking for help on this. I will stick to semi trucks and bobcats to fix - i went to school for that. Happy 2026 everybody.

[trainman203]

No problem asking.  That's what this forum is for.

You need to find an independent tech to help you with this.   They are around, Google is your friend.  You have to pay them of course, they aren't doing it for their health.  But with the two involved vendors pointing fingers at each other, you need to get someone outside of that corral to independently investigate.  I wish I knew someone I could refer you to, but I don't I'm sorry. 

There's a Digitraxx iO forum you could join.  Someone there might be able to answer your questions. But if they can't, between all those people, they'll know someone you could consult with independently.

Good luck on this. Get it solved. Model railroading is too cool to walk away from.

[trainman203]

I have just bought the bachmann rail chief ho scale train set. I am wanting to get a locomotive that has sound and smoke. I need someone to explain exactly what I need to buy to convert my set and please be patient as I am a rookie. Thanks

To get sound and smoke, you'll have to buy a locomotive that has a DCC decoder in it that feature sound, it has a smoke unit installed.  The power packs had come with train sets don't handle DCC, you'll have to get an entry-level DC controller such as Bachmann Ez command.  Don't try to run to DCc locomotive with the train set power pack, you'll burn the motor up.

The Bach Man probably needs to snip this post and start a new thread to get it out of the discussion of the Digitraxx problem.