lol How do they work? Sorry I can’t help it its so funny in here today.
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DCC Answer: The command station sends little jolts of voltage on the track. Inside each loco is a minature engineer, each trained to respond to a specific sequence of jolts. So you prod the engineer of loco 1234 with his specific pattern and he speeds up and slows downt he loco, or blows the horn, or rings the bell, etc.
–Randy
Johnnny, is the heat getting to you? LOL
Rich
So, does that mean that a dual-decoder locomotive has both a miniature engineer and a miniature fireman? And what about a stationary decoder? Do you hook that up to a train station somehow?
Exactly. A stationary decoder has a little operator inside to throw the switches when goosed by the electrical signal.
Pretty much the same thing with signal controllers and block detectors. In the case of block detectors, the operator telegraphs back to the command station when a train is OS in a detection section.
–Randy
Nobody knows. It’s pure magic.
My chair is too low, and I can’t see the back of the layout. Do I need a booster?
My kids had boosters that also doubled as Potty’s. If you didn’t have a wireless throttle, problem solved.[8-|]
You had to bring THAT thread into this, didn’t you? [(-D] [swg]
–Randy
You see how easy it is to connect everything with DCC?
And they say this stuff is complicated…
–Randy
That’s a tough question, more thought needed
DCC works very well. Yes, I am bored also.
Time to get my bicycle out and take a ride on the rail trails in my area. Very fortunate to have old rail lines with a paved path now. Even found a track bumper for an old siding behind a old factory.
Rich