Installation: Wired

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.