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Posted by tstage on Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:40 PM

west willow,

I bought my Power Cab when it first came out in early 2006 and have enjoyed it very much.  I find it very intuitive to use.

If you'd like to read an initial review on the Power Cab, go to the review page of my web site at the link below.  There's also a review of the CAB-04p throttle and Smart Booster (both SB3 & SB3a)

Tom

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:42 PM

I have NCE at home and Digitrax at the club.  If I had to do it all over again I would still go with NCE for my home layout.  To me, it is much more user friendly.

You will find that each person has their own favorite system and will want to tell you about it.  Do a search here on the forums and you will find many many discussions about the different systems.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by simon1966 on Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:22 PM

Lots of people, not me however.  Still it is an excellent system, made by a reputable manufacturer.  You will hear very few complaints about it, just occasionally when someone hits one of the operational limits, but based on everything you have posted on other threads I think you will be very happy with it.

Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum

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Posted by locoi1sa on Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:10 PM

Very good system. I have had one since its inception. It gives you a seven foot cord for walk around. I made a 3 foot cord so I can use at my workbench with an extra plug panel and power supply.

     Welcome to the world of DCC.

       Pete

 I pray every day I break even, Cause I can really use the money!

 I started with nothing and still have most of it left!

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nce power cab
Posted by west willow and laurel on Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:55 PM

Anybody using the nce power cab? I'm new to dcc and am building a HO switching layout which will use one, possibly two, locomotives. The price seems very reasonable and lots of people seem to like their other systems. Any thoughts?

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