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Re: Train Motor dilema
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:46:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote:
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Forgive my ignorance, what is DCC?
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--Anthony
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Anthony-
DCC = Digital Command and Control, an electrical signalling protocol used by
many model railroading hobbyists to provide remote control of 1000s of trains at
the same time on the same layout using essentially simpl parallel wiring.
Many people have modified their LEGO trains to run with DCC. It involves buying
off the shelf DCC equipment, connecting the DCC power booster to the LEGO track,
and installing DCC decoders inside each LEGO train motor assembly. The decoders
are very small and easily fit in the motor housings. DCC provides additional
benefits including:
- Pulse width modulation, which allows trains start up at a crawl.
- Many speed steps
- Extra control lines for things like lights that run even when the train is stopped
- The ability to have turn-around-loops
- The ability to add non-mobile decoders to control other things on the layout such as switch tracks.
- Wireless infrared and radio control
- Constant speed operation (more power is automatically applied to go up hill and less to go down hill)
- The ability to merge multiple motor assemblies and/or engines into one train
While opening motor assemblies to install decoders, I have found that motor
problems are just about never problems with the motors themselves, but rather,
problems with broken metal track pickups or bad thermal overload disks (which I
discard, since the decoder provides overload protection anyway).
-Ted
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