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Analog, Digital Control or RC/Battery - Power & Control.
« on: January 20, 2013, 06:51:39 am »
With the options to  Power &  Control of your locomotive available today, which do you use?

Analog
Digital
RC/Battery
TMCC
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 01:43:14 pm by djacobsen »
Railroad Crossings: Mother Natures way of thinning the gene pool.

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I'll be first...
I am an Analog guy.
Always will be, but for one exception..

I do have one of the old, Orange Aristocraft Basic Train Engineers.
The bottom line RC unit, that I eventually plan on  installing
in the B-mann 1:20.3,  GE-45 tonner I have.  I'll use it to use it to
push one of  my snowplows when I convert it to battery power.

I guess I forgot about the Large Scale Polar Express set
that I Have . It IS R/C & Battery powered, but it only
comes out at Christmas.
So make that two exceptions.
 ;)
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 03:24:20 pm by djacobsen »
Railroad Crossings: Mother Natures way of thinning the gene pool.

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On the 0 stuff, analog. The 3-rail has a memory-type walkaround (tethered), start running, unplug, keeps doing what it was doing while you walk to the next box and plug back in.
In another scale/gauge, I have been using exclusively radio control, battery power for 20 years. The earliest radios still function in the locomotives they were installed in just fine. I have moved almost 100% to NiMH batteries from NiCads.
I get 3-9 hours on a charge, depending on MAH rating of the batteries and the load on same.
I have sound now in, oh, over half of them. Had to do it for business reasons (to show how it works), but I prefer to run the volume all the way down when I run. You can hear if the locomotive has any issues that way, tighten what needs to be tightened, oil what's dry, before it fails.
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