I think scoulding the original poster for not reading the manual is a bit much. The last TT talk Simon said these work with DC controllers. As someone else said the webpage says to keep your DC controller plugged in on max power. The front of the box of the decoders says "Tri Mode - Functions with HM - DCC app control - DCC and DC Controllers I thought exact as OP said, you put it on DC track with standard DC controller turned to 100% If thats wrong, its not OPs fault, its Hornbys