(DIR) Return Create A Forum - Home --------------------------------------------------------- Lionel Trains (HTM) https://lioneltrains.createaforum.com --------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** (DIR) Return to: General Model Train Discussions ***************************************************** #Post#: 70-------------------------------------------------- Analog, Digital Control or RC/Battery - Power & Control. By: djacobsen Date: January 20, 2013, 6:51 am --------------------------------------------------------- With the options to Power & Control of your locomotive available today, which do you use? Analog Digital RC/Battery TMCC #Post#: 71-------------------------------------------------- Re: Analog, Digital Control or RC/Battery - Power & Control . By: djacobsen Date: January 20, 2013, 6:57 am --------------------------------------------------------- I'll be first... I am an Analog guy. Always will be, but for one exception.. I do have one of the old, Orange Aristocraft Basic Train Engineers. The bottom line RC unit, that I eventually plan on installing in the B-mann 1:20.3, GE-45 tonner I have. I'll use it to use it to push one of my snowplows when I convert it to battery power. I guess I forgot about the Large Scale Polar Express set that I Have . It IS R/C & Battery powered, but it only comes out at Christmas. So make that two exceptions. ;) #Post#: 130-------------------------------------------------- Re: Analog, Digital Control or RC/Battery - Power & Control . By: Sam Mamish Date: February 7, 2013, 12:01 am --------------------------------------------------------- On the 0 stuff, analog. The 3-rail has a memory-type walkaround (tethered), start running, unplug, keeps doing what it was doing while you walk to the next box and plug back in. In another scale/gauge, I have been using exclusively radio control, battery power for 20 years. The earliest radios still function in the locomotives they were installed in just fine. I have moved almost 100% to NiMH batteries from NiCads. I get 3-9 hours on a charge, depending on MAH rating of the batteries and the load on same. I have sound now in, oh, over half of them. Had to do it for business reasons (to show how it works), but I prefer to run the volume all the way down when I run. You can hear if the locomotive has any issues that way, tighten what needs to be tightened, oil what's dry, before it fails. Sam *****************************************************