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Mathieu,Sully,Lance The Bachmann E-Z Controller is a real basic system. You can control the loco and switch the lights on and off, or just dim them. As I previously mentioned, the loco runs perfectly well and very quietly on DC power, but is very noisy on DCC. The decoder in the Bachmann loco that comes with the set, is the Lenz LE1000W. This decoder is a basic cheapy put out by Lenz. As the matter now stands with my GP50, I am not running it on DCC until I can replace the decoder with a NCE or ZIMO silent one. I also have had the loco stripped down, and done some remedial work on the universals that are attached to the motor shafts. These were not contentric on the shafts, and at the lower speeds caused a hammering action. The result is not perfect, but the hammering is greatly reduced. This however, did not make any difference to the noise factor. By the way the unit does not have flywheels. In addittion, the truck at the short hood end had a bad wobble, which I fixed by tightening the screw slightly. In my honest opinion, the Command unit is a pleasure to operate and simple to use. The loco although nice looking, leaves something to be desired in relation to quality control. Kind Regards David
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