Below is the e-mail letter that I received from Bruce Petrarca at Litchfield Station. It is long but worth reading if you’re into or about to get into DCC. Bruce is making the effort to keep modelers informed.
From Bruce Petrarca; Litchfield Station:
What follows is from impressions, not specific statements and if you choose to read to the end of this eMail, you’ll understand why information is so scarce.
The Tsunami will be a worthy successor Soundtraxx’s flagship DSD150. While the final features are still a bit cloudy for reasons which should become clear as you read this eMail, the Tsunami offers, amongst other features: better sound, better motor control, and more features than were possible with the hardware available when the DSD 150 was designed. The Tsunami has been in planning for several years. Part of that time was waiting for promised microprocessors to become available. Finally, last September enough technical work was done that Nancy and Steve were willing to announce the product to those of us who attended the DEALER SEMINAR. We dealers were “BLOWN AWAY” at the performance, and orders started flowing in with a prospect of December 1st release of the “1 AMP” version with the 3 and 5 amp versions promised to follow.
An ATLAS Light Board version was suggested by the dealers and taken under consideration by the technical folks. I can tell from my orders that it would be a marketing success, if it can be put together technically. (OVER half of the orders I’ve received for diesel versions so far would go with an Atlas lightboard if it were available).
As anybody who has done any work in technical production will tell you, the last few weeks before release are killers. Long hours working on little “Gotchas”. Getting all the diagnostics and documentation correct. Turning on production and finding things that need to be twe