I am generally the "keeper of the DCC equipment" for our modular club.
The main problem I have is not dispaching their equipment at the end of
the run or before take-down. I always tell the guys--it's just like
stopping your car someplace with the key in the ignition and the car
running. It's just common sense! I have my own system and the club's
setup for 120 engines but eventually all the 'slots' will get filled up.
So I have to go around just like your mother did way back and clean up
after everybody.
That being said, I'm no expert on DCC or Digitrax in particular. I've
had some mysteries, although most are solved via common sense and a
quick check of the manual. I was visiting a very large growing HO/HO3
layout over the weekend. The owner had a 'paid' DCC expert come in to
work on his system (very large system)--corrections made, but--4 hours
later much of it was down for the evening. The whole idea is just like
computers--most of us get them to work with the programs we use, but
many of the capabilities just aren't needed so are ignored. I do pretty
well in programing, consisting, but I don't have a clue what 'cascading
routes' are.
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
Bill,
Are you old enough to have brain fade? Yeah, it's a pain to forget
after many months that 353 was consisted to 420 and you had to 0-5-0
353 off the track for some reason only to put it back on the track
many months later and wonder.
Still not a good enough reason for me not to consist. It's not hard -
even with Digitrax - or to look it up in the manual. Finding the
manual might be a challenge, though. Of course it has to be done just
right with the lead on the right throttle and the slave on the left
knob. And if you call up the loco address the throttle should report
that it is consisted (I don't recall if it tells you to what).
Ben Trousdale
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"Bill Lane" <bill@...> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
>
>
> Your brain fade is the very reason I have never ever made a consist.
Early
> on in my "DCC career" I took my EM-1 to a CJSS meet. Sam McCoy did a
> consist with Don's EM-1. We ran them and had a great time. I got home,
> nothing worked and I freaked out a bit. Sammy walked me thought
deleting the
> consist. Lesson learned - don't consist.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Lane
