Peter, Where are you going to install the batteries? Are you giving up the cab interior or will they be in car that is a slave to the switcher? Thanks Ed Sauers
________________________________ From: Peter Vanvliet <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:15 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Introduction to the S-CAB System Group, This weekend I received my first S-CAB starter bundle. This is a DCC system that uses radio frequency to communicate DCC commands from the hand-held throttle to the receiver/decoder bundle installed in the locomotive (no command station and no DCC signals via the rail needed). I just uploaded a page to my web site that describes what you get when you buy the system. http://pmrr.org/Articles/DCC/Articles__DCC_LVL2_S-CAB.htm I am going to install it in my S-Helper Service NW2 engine. It will also use the battery power feature. I'm hoping that I have some time to work on this during the Christmas holidays. I have tested the NCE decoder with the hand-held throttle and it worked great. Once I get it working in that engine, I will publish another article on my web site. For all the details about the system, see the page mentioned above. I am especially excited about the battery operation, because my track is starting to act up again. The metal polish I mentioned earlier this year has about run its course. I spent all of Saturday chasing a short-circuit in my layout. I hadn't run any trains in a couple of weeks, because I'd been working on scratchbuilding a couple of structures. When I fired it up, I immediately got the dreaded 4 beeps from the Digitrax system. I finally narrowed it down to a one-inch piece of track that somehow was making contact with its neighboring rail, causing a short. That section of track had been working flawlessly for three-plus years! Go figure. It'll be so nice to finally pull the plug... literally. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected]) Houston, Texas My Model Railroad Site (RSS feed) Fourth Ray Software Houston S Gaugers N.A.S.G. --
