Bill,
I agree. The "complexity" that they mention is really not that big of a
deal. Even to the DCC beginner. I am usually only running one unit at
a time (since my layout is only going to be a switching layout so to
speak), so that isn't a big deal right now for me either. I caught on
to their plug and play technology right away. I like to hard wire my
decoders and I'm pretty good at it. So plug and play for me is almost
useless. It usually takes me about 10 minutes to program an engine in
decoder pro, however, most of that is checking the lighting and making
sure things are running the way I want them too.
I guess time will tell if it really takes off. Right now, I will stick
with the archaic complexities of DCC.
Michael Ostertag
On 8/25/2012 11:59 PM, Bill Lane wrote:
Michael,
The 1 thing that neither of us previously mentioned is capacity. I
gave a good surf around and did not see ONE thing about system output
or decoder capacity. That would be important to most people. They seem
to be concentrated on pretty new locomotives in HO only, that can plug
their decoder in easily. Not very flexible or accommodating to me....
I LIKE the big NCE handle! Most buttons do 1 thing most of the time.
Where is the emergency stop on Rail Pro?
As for the speed matching it was someone interesting but that is not a
problem for me. I usually run like units together and set them all to
the same address -- no consisting is needed. Like units are
prototypical for me since I am not in "couple up and run it" Penn
Central.... If I am running different locomotives together I use
separate handles like the real thing with head end and helpers. Maybe
Rail Pro could license the speed sensing programming to NCE and call
it a day!
There is some learning curve to DCC. I have said that you usually wind
up with the brand or DCC system that your closest friends have. I
don't think I have ever revisited a decoder to do extensive custom
programming once the first 45 second programming was done so that
negates the "complexity" issues touted by Rail Pro.
Thank You,
Bill Lane
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