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[quote user="wjstix"] <p>One thing I noticed years ago when switching from my old c.1971 MRC "Golden Throttlepack" to the Tech II one was that the Tech II (and later Tech IV) seemed to produce a lot less power, probably because the newer engines with can motors needed less power than the old open frame motors. For example, when I was in O, the old throttlepack was fine, but the Tech II gave me an overload warning on some engines. Later when I was in HO I found that if an engine used say 30% of full power on the old throttlepack, it would take maybe 50-60% on a "Tech" throttle to get it up to the same speed. </p><p>When I got my first sound engine, a BLI Hudson, I had to put the throttle up to 100% to get the engine to go at anything above a crawl, and IIRC one of my other BLI engines wouldn't budge on full DC - but that was about the time I switched to DCC.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I decided to do the same thing as well. Several DCC engines required several different "Throttle" behavior with increasingly crowded group of marks on the power pack showing nuetrals for the engines.</p><p>I thought to myself what am I getting into? Tossed it and went with DCC.</p><p>You should see the behavior the DCC engines exhibited when "Mistreated" or not fed the power they crave. It was amazing. </p>
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