NCE Power Cab with Hornby accessory Decoder and cobalt Ip digital.

[nhdesigns]

I’ve recently got an NCE power cab and have two things I need some help with. I’m using a Hornby accessory decoder to control two Peco points at the start of my fiddle yard and I don’t know if I can still use them with my NCE power cab. 
 

secondly I have a cobalt ip digital point motor which fails to switch points when my other one does and works fine with my NCE power cab. 
 

I don’t know if I might have changed it from running to set. I went to see if I needed to readdressed it but I think I might have messed it up as I didn’t know what cv values I had to put in.

 

Any help would be really good thank you. I’m still rather new to using one since I’ve always used a Hornby elite and wanted something like the NCE power cab as it looks easier to use and feels more professional in my mind.

[WIMorrison]

You don't have any CVs to alter on a Cobalt Digital IP, to readdress simply slide the switch to SET and issue the command to switch whichever address is relevant for the turnout. Slide it back to run, and the motor should switch.

 

Can't help you with the Hornby stuff, never used it

 

 

[Ray H]

I can't think of a reason why the PowerCab can't operate the Hornby accessory decoder. All you should need to do is to give the accessory decoder an address and then use the select accessory button on the PowerCab. However, . . . .

 

My colleague uses Cobalt digital point motors with his NCE kit and they work fine but there is a specific procedure that is necessary when using the NCE gear to set the addresses of these. The same procedure may be necessary with the Hornby decoder as well.

 

I'm sure there was a thread on here a few years back which detailed how to do it. Sorry, I can't remember where but take a look at the following which might be helpful.

https://www.dccconceptsforum.com/post/cobalt-ip-digital-point-motors-deactivating-self-centering-10539197

[nhdesigns]

Thanks everyone for the help with this problem I'm having. I'll do just what you all suggest and hopefully things will be okay. As I said I got one cobalt Ip digital motor that works fine and it's just this one that must have got lost somewhere in the programming.

 

As I say I'm rather new to using the NCE powercab system and have a lot to get around with it. Overall it does more than what I could ask for with digital control and is simply worth every penny, espically for slow shunting movements and speeds.