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Re: LEGO is listening! (was...are you listening?)
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:47:57 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Frank Buiting writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Zhengrong Zang writes:
> > I am not sure about DCC, can it control automatically?
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> AFAIK, it is designed to control trains. In fact, it does not just control
> the motor, but can also control lights, whistles and trackside objects.
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> -Frank
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> Followups to lugnet.trains
DCC has from the very start (back when Marklin made it only) had a RS-232
connection capability to your computer.
There are a couple of other options available if you want a computer controlled
layout, such as (Bruce Chubb's???) computer controlled system. This is a
conventional (DC) system driven by a low end computer (like a 8086 or so...).
track must be sectionalized, and wiring gets complicated.
One could also use Zero-1 with a computer (IIRC), however, it is no longer
available as such, and the company that is making it might as well be making to
NMRA DCC now.
(Zero-1 was Hornby Hobbies version of DCC, and had some limitations that DCC
does not, such as not working right...but it was the first commerical _digital_
command control system.)
I'm thinking of going to DCC (have been since 96 :) but I have always had
something else that was more important to get at any given time...
James Powell
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| (...) And apparently neeeded a 'clean_room' level of dust removal to work effectivly... (...) I wonder what the Tech Model Railway Club do in regard to thier DCC system? (The TMRC being the Model railwy group at MIT- According to one source they had (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.trains)
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