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There are two throttle switching scenarios. One is same loco but different throttles. The other is same throttle but different loco. On my small layout, with as many as 8 locos(trains) available, I have two throttles (not wireless). The layout is big enough that as I follow the train I switch throttles (due to NOT being wireless) as I follow the train around. The throttle I come to has to aquire the loco. If I run two locos, I usually put one loco on each throttle and just leave it. Following the train around is necessary because I need to check/throw turnouts. So I do aquire new locos on my throttles with trains running. Due to having the potentiometer instead of encoder type throttle I have to really watch what I am doing. (Probably have to really watch what I'm doing with the other type throttle as well). I'm still not clear on why an encoder is better at switching throttles/locos.I IMAGINE a throttle that AQUIRES the settings of the loco as soon as you push the new loco button. Now it cant actually MOVE the knob, but the knob is RELATIVE and INFINITE (no stops), so wherever the knob is set is the current value of the throttle setting. Moving it up or down from there changes it. That is what I mean by RELATIVE vs FIXED. Since the current loco settings are inherited by the throttle, there is no change in the settings and the knobs work fine slowing it down a little if you turn it counterclockwise and speeding it up if you turn it clockwise. Now I said I IMAGINE such a throttle. I dont know if ANY of the throttles work this way. I also havent thought it through enough to know if this creates some other problem. Comments?
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