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Re: DCC Madness - One Step Beyond
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Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:47:26 GMT
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DCC is really cool for manual control of multiple trains on the same track.
However it doesn't provide any positional feedback so you can't easily have
automatic control of the trains.


Actually, there is transponding systems available for DCC, Digitrax make them
(I'm playing with just normal DCC for now anyway...and only have 2 decoders
fitted...)

DCC is not intended to be used to computer control trains...but, to run more
than two trains on the same track at the same time (2 is easy with DC...I'll
let you figure out how :)

James



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  Re: DCC Madness - One Step Beyond
 
(...) The software we're using, TMWDCC 1.33, allows for a "route" mode which can execute timed switch throwing, but that's about the extent of it. Iain Hendry has been thinking about this for a while. One system we thought of was using a Dacta (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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