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Something new in electronics

Sat, 2014-12-20 09:31 — Bernd

Could decoders become smaller and flexible?

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Has anyone ordered from Wholesale Trains ? I am in the process for shopping to get a NCE Power Cab and it seems that they have the best price for $143.99. So I wanted to know if anyone in the group have experienced ordering from them.

Thank you in advance.

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Advance Consisting Question

Fri, 2014-12-19 10:51 — akarmani

I have a question concerning Advance Consisting. As I understand it, an engine will respond to its normal address if CV19 is 0; however when CV19 is changed to the consist value (1-127, Bit 7 used for direction control) the decoder knows it is in a consist. As long as CV19 is not 0 the engine will not respond to speed commands using the engines normal address.

DCC wiring question about occupancy detection

Mon, 2014-12-15 16:04 — rblundon

Typically, I run a separate PAIR of wires for each section of track that I want to detect occupancy on. This ends up with me having as much wire under the layout as rail above the layout. The question I have is: If I am feeding all of the DCC blocks from the same source, can I run a single common wire and just run single wires for each block that I want to detect current draw from? This would save quite a bit of redundant wire under my layout.

Thanks,

Ryan

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DCC readiness

Mon, 2014-12-15 03:49 — Martin Larsen

Hi Gang,

I am contemplating investing in an Athern RTR GP38-2, the CSX #2559.

I am wondering weather or not this unit is DCC ready and if so, what decoder to choose for it - I prefer a drop-in sound decoder, but beggars can't be choosers...

Thankyou for your time,

Martin

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Anyone tried to fix dt300 with bad capacitor issue?

Sun, 2014-12-14 18:32 — Delray1967

At our modular club's last show, someone picked up an old dt300 throttle and found the display to flash between the voltage display and the hexadecimal display every second or so. Doing a quick search with my phone, this turns out to be a common issue caused by bad capacitors being installed when the throttles were made (NOT Digitrax's fault at all). I read it would cost about $35 to send the throttles back to Digitrax to repair (we have two of them), which is a bit much for our club, especially since these throttles get very little use.

Rail GAp device

Sun, 2014-12-14 15:09 — Larry Kedes

I lost track of information about a commercial product for stabilizing track on either side of an inserted rail gap. My recollection is that the product was a metallic set of ties that are slipped under the rail at the site of the desired gap, The rail is soldered to the metallic tie set and then, once the rails are firmly in place, a gap is created. The tie pads on either side of the gap are of course not electrically continuous.

Soundcar with DecoderPro?

Fri, 2014-12-12 16:45 — waxgroove

Just got around to ordering a Soundtraxx soundcar decoder. I have a small switching layout and will mount a speaker underneath. Has anyone used DecoderPro with the Soundcar decoder? I’m using a Sprog DCC to make CV adjustments. Is there something special about the soundcar decoder I should be aware of?