Decoders with wires provided for hooking up the decoder in the locomotive. If wires are not provided for hooking up functions, solder pads are provided to allow you to access those functions by adding wires.
Digitrax Mobile Decoder Wire Colors
What the wires are for |
Wire Color |
Power Pick-up Right (Engineer's Side) |
Red |
Power Pick-up Left (Fireman's Side) |
Black |
Motor + Right Brush |
Orange |
Motor – Left Brush |
Gray |
F0(Fwd)-Forward Light |
White |
F0(Rev)-Reverse Light |
Yellow |
Lamp Common |
Blue |
F1-Function 1 |
Green |
F2-Function 2 |
Violet |
F3-Function 3 |
Brown |
F4-Function 4 |
White w/ Yellow Stripe |
F5-Function 5 |
White w/ Green Stripe |
F6-Function 6 |
White w/ Blue Stripe |
Note: DH82 & DN92 decoders, some of the very first decoders produced by Digitrax used a different wiring color code. Please check decoder spec sheets for the wire colors that were used with these decoders.