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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    Comparing Digitrax of 1997 to the Wangrow Sys-1 (NCE) of 1997 is fair. The Wangrow you can pick up and use almost on the first try. It has buttons on it like "select loco", and other 21st century inovations like the digits 0-9. The present NCE system is largely unchanged in terms of the...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    Thanks for the illustration of my point. The document you reference describes the steps for linking the locomotives in consist. "select the first loco on the right throttle knob". If it's a 4-digit address, this in and of itself is multiple steps!! The consisting procedure for the...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    They still make the DT300, which doesn't have numeric keypad digits. I think I pretty much explained myself - the philosophy that brought about the DT100 still is evident in Digitrax. The DT400 really came a long way forward. When they do a complete and succinct rewrite of all their docs...
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    Be my friend?

    Last time I checked the Who were British. This might sound almost like a conspiracy to claim Canada is still part of the British Empire. Which could effect the United States, should the Crown wish to reclaim the 13 or more... Florida would be part of Cuba, Texas and California would be part of...
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    Be my friend?

    Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend & company were performing at one of those Canadian donut shops. They did a live album - it was called "Horton's Hears The Who". Andy
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    Be my friend?

    Well if it's like most other "friend" things on line, it means you get all of my spam and I get all of your spam. Plus we each still get all of our own spam. Win/win, eh? :p Andy
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    Incomprehensible documentation must also be a safety feature then, because it prevents anyone from using anything but the most basic features. Well no, that can't be right. Because the most basic feature of all - selecting a loco - was the most poorly documented, at least in the days of the...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    The biggest problem I have with the Digitrax radio isn't that you have to plug in to select. It's that if you do it *without* plugging in, it acts as if it has done it when it hasn't! There's no feedback to say hey, this isn't working, you gotta plug in. I'm sure using it every day, you'd get...
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    Cleaning Wheels

    Put two drops of LaBelle 108 on each rail. Or that old standby Wahl clipper oil. Andy
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    Rivarossi & IHC passenger cars

    Definitely Rivarossi. Looks like the one in the left edge of the pic is a dome - that is a UP prototype dome coach. Then the coach in the pic has never been tied to a specific prototype, although it's similar to a CN coach. Then the UP diner, and UP baggage car. Andy
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    Rivarossi & IHC passenger cars

    Yes, no, maybe. Rivarossi made in Italy was imported by a company called AHM in the 1960s and 70s. AHM went out of business. The same guy came back to life as IHC at some point, and I'd say between 1980 and 1995, Rivarossi stuff showed up in IHC boxes, plain red Rivarossi boxes, and even...
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    Question: Walthers Passenger Trucks/Wheels

    The problem with Walthers passenger cars and reverse loops is that the trucks pick up from both sides at once. Both sides of the truck are "hot", which doubles the number of wheels picking up for better lighting, but it means when you cross a reverse loop boundary, you have a short. If you...
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    Bachmann Digital Commander set

    For 30 bucks more you can get an NCE Powercab. It's the only starter system I can recommend in good conscience. I have the "big" NCE system on my layout, but a Powercab on my workbench for setting up and testing locos. It works just like its big brother, fully functioning throttle and all...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    I think I may have heard this before on the NCE forum, but not specifically as a fix for the DHxx3 runaways. Might be worth a try, should not affect my other operations at all. I'll let ya know. Andy
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    That would be CV19. Setting a consist with NCE sets CV19 to the consist address. That's what it's supposed to do. This action is what makes the loco take off running. Also clearing it. Since the loco then responds to the consist commands, that means CV19 is getting set to the correct value...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    The PowerCab does come with a power supply (wall wart). The Pro system lets you pick your own power supply. I don't know of NCE (or anyone else) is currently offering branded power supplies. It does seem strange that they manufacture a complete system, and then tell you to go to Radio Shack's...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    Obviously you never used a DT100 throttle. It took Digitrax years to even consider manufacturing a throttle that had the digits 0 through 9 on it. What a concept!! If you look up Fiddly/Geeky in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of AJ holding a DT100 with a word balloon saying "See...
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    Help with proto 2000 gp-30

    Contrary to popular rumor, there is a lot more wrong with Proto GP30s than the axle gears. The good news is you can fix it. Once you have replaced the axle gears, you're finding the loco will barely move, right? This is because the worms are gummed up with that worthless lubricant from the...
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    NCE Power Pro or Digitrax Super Chief??

    The constant problem I have with Digitrax decoders has to do with the DH123 and DH163, when I try to consist them with my NCE system. On NCE when I add a loco to a consist that has one of these decoders, the loco will start moving. Not at a really high setting, but if it's in the middle of a...
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    P2K SD9 issues

    The Proto SD9 has very tight trucks. I haven't worked on one of them in quite a few years. It's one of my projects that fell through the cracks. I want to do one up as an N&W one of these days. But it seemed to me that there was not a lot of pitch motion in the trucks, and this is critical...




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