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Click Yes to enable future automatic scans of NCE Cab status, or No to leave the
scans disabled. Leaving scans disabled is preferred if you want to adjust the setup
of the NCE Power Pro Command Station or Cabs, or change Consist or Macro
settings without being interrupted periodically.
A tick mark next to the Refresh Item Allocation & Status option on the View
menu will be displayed to indicate that periodic scans of attached NCE Cabs are
enabled. In this state, every 6 minutes, A-Track will automatically re-scan the
status of the NCE Cabs attached to the Command Station. The current Cab
allocation and status will be cleared from the Item List, with the middle indictor on
the status bar returning to show red, then changing to yellow and eventually back
to green when the full re-scan has been completed. Note that, during the time
taken to refresh the Item and Handheld Cab status, the NCE menu is disabled to
avoid any other menu function initiating a data transfer which would conflict with
the transfer in progress.
Further details of the Handheld Cab status scan, and the current state of any Cab’s
accessible parameters, can be reviewed on the PC screen at any time that the NCE
menu is available, and amended if required, by clicking Handheld Cab Setup on
the NCE menu.
This will open the Cab Status & Setup window which displays the last recorded
status of all Handheld Cabs, and specific details of the last selected Cab which, in
the example shown overleaf, are those of the Handheld Cab with address 02.
The overall state of the Cab status scan is shown in the bottom section of the Cab
Status & Setup window where, in the Cab Connected Status grid, the background
colour of each cell shows the connection status of each Cab, from Cab 01 to Cab 63,
as follows –
•
Cab Address not yet scanned – white (never seen in normal usage)
•
Cab Address scanned – Cab detected – light green
•
Cab Address scanned – Cab not detected – pink
If a particular Cab is selected to display its parameters and allocated Items, by
clicking in the grid cell corresponding to its Address, then the cell background colour
will change to dark green where the Cab has been detected (connected to the
Power Pro Command Station at some time since it was switched on), or to dark red
if that Cab has not been detected –
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