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Re: Train Control
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:32:19 GMT
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the way I see it, is that you need the PC or the DCC throttle for addressing
of the decoders in the engines.  They also allow you to choose the address
which controls the engine itself.  I don't think the shell controller could
be capable of doing this, but it could be modified to have addressing
capabilities.  Although it is easier to build a throttle from scratch than
to modify something already out there.

Anyway, so everyone, so please through in your 2 cents, it will all be
needed and taken seriously.  I always use other modelers advice to build my
n-scale models, a so goes forth here.
Steve Martin wrote in message ...
In lugnet.trains, Matthew Bates writes:

I don't think that Matt has done anything else with DCC in a while

Correct. I haven't time to even think about it lately. I got it kinda • working
but I wasn't too happy with the performance. The Digitrax decoder behaved
rather erratically, another decoder behaved better. Since then I haven't • had
time to look at it again and I don't whether it was a bug in my
hardware/software/firmware or some other fundamental incompatibility.

Matt

What about using some off the shelf controller instead of integrating with • a
computer?  What are the trade offs?

-Steve



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  Re: Train Control
 
(...) What about using some off the shelf controller instead of integrating with a computer? What are the trade offs? -Steve (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)

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