Hi All,
I just got back from an ops session on a fine DC HO layout. The fellow who
has designed it has a CTC Dispatcher panel and is installing his own home
made signal system using NAND gates.
It is a fun evening and the Dispatcher controls everyones movements
electrically.
This fellow has a fine operating layout and I really respect all his
electrical and electronic work. He has no intention of going DCC and I
don't blame him with all the work that he has done to make the layout
operate at the lever that it does. He does not talk down DCC.
What I find interesting are the other fellows that frequent these sessions.
Most of them pan DCC quite passionately while I simply stand there and
quietly say, "Don't cut it up if you haven't tried it."
Two fellows even tell me that it is outdated and that a new invention from
Aristocraft using super capacitors will be replacing it. Interesting since
once again, they have never tried DCC.
I am hesitant to invite them over to try my NCE system as one fellow even
said he would stomp on any DCC controller that anyone handed him.
I have never heard a DCC user cut up DC like these guys cut up DCC.
So, I quietly go about my business at these sessions.
What I found interesting too was the passionate thread where a list member
was cutting up the NASG and the Dispatch. As I said before, don't cut it up
if you have not tried it. And that goes for conventions too.
BTW, I will go blueprint to blueprint with any rivet counter.
cheers,
Andy Malette
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