--- In [email protected], JAMES SLEETH <aztecfan@...> wrote:
>
> So all the good new scale engines from Lionel and Mike will be offer sound
> systems that run off AC.
>
> So if you want to run DC you have to dig up the old AC to DC conversion units.
>
> Then you throw away your DCC sound units if you have them.
>
> Now all your engines can run on AC, but they will not sell you AC sound units.
>
> Tell me I am wrong.
>
> I am building a new layout and see I have to have a DC system and a AC system.
>
> I can not seem to find a way to have all engines to have sound.
>
> Funny that Gilbert and sound and ran on AC and DC.
>
> So is our future AC
>
> Jim Sleeth
>
No, Jim. The S future is not AC.
The only reason TMCC and DCS are AC compatible is because they were designed
for a 3-rail world that has a lot of older product that ran on AC and there are
some there who don't wan't to mess with command control or DC conversions.
Running either with Lionel's or MTH's system under conventional AC still
results with the forward-neutral-revese-neutral senario. Plus command equipped
AC locomotives do not run as smooth under conventional control.
MTH will run under DC or DCC. Lionel is working on DC and DCC compatibility.
If either of these companies want to seriously deal with the scale market in
ANY scale, they have to deal with DC and DCC.
That is the future.
Rich G(ajnak)
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