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       #Post#: 70--------------------------------------------------
       Analog,  Digital Control or RC/Battery - Power & Control.
       By: djacobsen Date: January 20, 2013, 6:51 am
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       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
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       By: djacobsen Date: January 20, 2013, 6:57 am
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       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
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       By: Sam Mamish Date: February 7, 2013, 12:01 am
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       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
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