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Reply to "Can you control 2 mth starter sets independently (each with its own loop of track) on the same layout by using different starter set commander remotes?"

Unsure what is meant by blocks. I simply wanrt to know if I put each of the starter set's tracks on the same platform at the same leve, (naturally I'll have to add some straight track sections to one starter set's tracks so that set will have a larger loop to go around outside the smaller inside loop from the other set. With this configuration, can i control the engine on eack loop of track with a different commander remote? Or are the two remotes programmed generically and by pressing one remote that signal will be sent to eack loco simultaneously activating and identically controlling them if both their z-500 power sources are powered on? Gunrunnerjohn says from experience what I what to do is imposssible since he's already tried it. Has anyone else actually tried it and gotten it to work? If you have, what exactly have you done to get it to work?
Originally Posted by GTW Don:

My understanding is the DCS Commander Remote (that comes with the starter sets) will operate any DCS engine (that has the factory default settings.. i.e., that hasn't had its ID # changed via a "regular" DCS system).

 

And no, I don't think you can customize a DCS Commander Remote to work with a specific engine. 

 

Think of the DCS Commander Remote as basically a "conventional" transformer control that's wireless (& has a few more buttons that allow for access to PS2/3 features... but NOT including running multiple trains independently on the same electical block).

 

If you want to run two engines independently of each other, they'll need to be on separate electrical blocks, and the receiver for each block should be at different points of the layout (farther away from each other the better).  That way you can point the remote at the receiver for "loop A" and run that train, and point the remote at the receiver for "loop B" and run that train.   

 

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