RailFanRick
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Just cancel your order and go with Athearn Genesis. You'll be glad you did.
Yep, two votes for cancelling your MTH order.Just cancel your order and go with Athearn Genesis. You'll be glad you did.
Yes, they are trying to push their own digital system, DCS. The sound systems work with regular DC and DCC but you have add a motor control decoder. Getting the two to work to gether is an exercise in frustration. There are lots of reasons I won't buy MTH, including some pretty shady business practices that almost killed standard DCC for the rest of of us. Their proprietary digital command system is another. The faster thay disappear from the HO scene and go back to ripping off three-railers, the better, as far as I'm concerned.![]()
Yes, they are trying to push their own digital system, DCS. The sound systems work with regular DC and DCC but you have add a motor control decoder. Getting the two to work to gether is an exercise in frustration. There are lots of reasons I won't buy MTH, including some pretty shady business practices that almost killed standard DCC for the rest of of us. Their proprietary digital command system is another. The faster thay disappear from the HO scene and go back to ripping off three-railers, the better, as far as I'm concerned.![]()
Read the manual at http://www.ulrichmodels.com/prostores/DCC_Topics/MTH_DCS_and_DCC.pdf for a good dicussion on the pros and cons of DCS and DCC.