Michael - you are from that special planet inhabited only by EE's.
10 minutes maybe if you are in the process of building an engine. A whole lot
more if it is a finished painted steamer from years ago.
Yeah it's no big deal if you have a coffee table layout. A starter set & four
decoders for $200 & you're done. But you only have enough power to run two
engines at a time.
How about a layout that needs 30 amps & has a fleet of locomotives. We're
talking $4000 without sound.
> I just had some correspondance with another S gauger to the effect
> that a circuit breaker is not fast enough to protect DCC equipment
That could only be true if you wired the layout poorly, which is
difficult to do with DCC. If you wire a layout poorly with DC, you'll
have the same problems.
> (Sing to the tune of "Heartaches By The Number" = "Headache number one
> is when I bought you...") How much money does something that can't
> survive a momentary short cost, anyway?
I think you'll find that the circuit breaker built into any "power
station" can survive momentary shorts, tools dropped on live rails,
etc. I've had numerous "accidents," none of which has damaged any
equipment. Can't say the same for when I had DC.
People keep complaining about the cost of DCC. I don't get it. For the
cost of one plastic diesel locomotive I can by a starter system. If I
want to put a locomotive into service without sound, I'm going to
spend more on detail parts than I am on a receiver. Before I put a
steam locomotive on the tracks, I usually spend 20+ hours on the
model, detailing, painting, tuning. To spend an extra $15 and 10
minutes to install a DCC decoder seems trivial when the payoff is
better control. I always put sound in, bumping the price up to $100
and 12 minutes. To me it seems worth the money and time, since I'll
use that locomotive for years.
-Michael Eldridge
-San Jose, CA
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