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Re: Yet Another S@H Catalog Observation
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:46:03 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:
> I've seen the decoders for $45 by themselves...even with
> > mass production (quantity buying)
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> The cheapest on the Digitrax site are $25 USD a pop. I would imagine that they
> cost $12 or less a piece. Most of what is contained on a decoder can be
> embedded on a single chip (a la Zero One for those of you who have ever studied
> command control), which would bring the price down even further _with very
> large scale mass production_
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> ...I'm sure the new motors w/ dcc won't be
> > cheap. 25 is fair making a train motor 50 (not including the light)
> > So the ultimate indesputable point is that dcc will only please the real
> > die-hard fans....that's my theory right now*
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> I'd tend to think around $45 for the decoder equipped motor.
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> James Powell
> (waiting for my Digitrax system to arrive :)
I'm going for the Atlas HO Dual Mode Decoder on my HO Layout, it costs like
$50, but i hear it works better then all of the rest.
Josh
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| I've seen the decoders for $45 by themselves...even with (...) The cheapest on the Digitrax site are $25 USD a pop. I would imagine that they cost $12 or less a piece. Most of what is contained on a decoder can be embedded on a single chip (a la (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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