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DCC Programming: episode 6 - Programming momentum
Great job, Dana. Your DCC video’s really help to explain the inner workings and make programming much easier.
Dana as always another great video in easy to understand terms,keep them coming,thanks
Dana, Thank you so much for the DCC programming video’s, they have assisted me greatly in understanding all of the features and how to program.I am sure that all of us are forever in your debt.
CW3 from Maryland
Very informative video; but, after all the CV’s and all the numbers my eyes started to glaze over. I’m thinking I made mistake in converting to DCC. “I” like to operate my locomotives, to speed them up and slow them down as if I were the engineer. To me, it seems I could do that better with DC.
Great job Dana
I happen to agree with Bart Sorrentino. My eyes and my gray matter are in another world,.
I enjoyed this Video as I have all of Dana’s DCC Programing video hints. This is the kind f stuff I subscribed to MRVP to watch. I was an early subscriber to MRVP and have not been disappointed. We are now in more of a Video for learning era and not in some much a print era anymore. Keep up the good work. jwl Ada, OK
Well done!
Dana, Thank You for the series. A request. It appears that as you were demonstrating the various momentum functions you were were also varying the throttle position. That makes it a bit harder for me to sort out what’s momentum and what’s throttle position. I’d like to see a demo in which, from a stop, you clearly run the throttle all the way to max, take your fingers off the throttle, allow the loco to achieve it’s max speed, then run the throttle back down to stop and allow the loco to come to a full stop. That of course is not the way we’d run the loco in an operation, but I believe it would clearly show the effects of momentum separate from throttle position.
Thanks for your consideration.
David
Just realised it’s two in the morning!!! These videos are really intriguing,and I understood most of the instructions on first viewing.[might have to take some notes…] Pity it’s so quiet now,the household won’t appreciate Dad’s trains at this hour! Suppose I’d better get to bed.Thanks Dana,it’s going to be a fun day,CV ing !!
This opens up a new chapter in my understanding of DCC. I have been running without setting momentum, relying on slow changes of speed steps to produce gradual changes of speed. Now I want to couple up a pair of Blackstone HOn3 consolidations and experiment with consist momentum. Always more fun to be found in model railroading