Radio Control Trains

[Anonymous]

I'm looking for information and help on getting a Radio Control Train Set. I have since it once before where the tracks are running at full power and the radio control unit sends a information to the train on the enough of speed of the train. Any help in finding more information about Radio Controlled Systems would be great.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Are you talking about command control with a wireless throttle? That is more or less what you have described. If so the term that is used is DCC, which stands for Digital Command Control. The way it works is a coded signal is applied to the rails, and each engine has a receiver set to a different channel. It sounds like radio control, but that part of the system doesn't send a signal through the air. A wireless throttle would send a signal through the air. It would tell the command base what you want the engine to do, then the command base would send the signal through the rails.

[cacole]

CVP Products of Richardson, Texas, makers of the Easy DCC system, have recently introduced a product called the AirWire 900 that is a battery operated, wireless, radio control system. Unfortunately, it only works for G-scale because the receiver / decoder that goes into the locomotive is too big to fit HO or smaller models, and you need a 12-18 volt battery.

They, and other DCC manufacturers of products for HO and smaller scales, such as North Coast Engineering, have wireless controllers available as options, but the command signal still travels through the rail to the locomotive's decoder.

[Don Gibson]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FaganSC

I have since it once before where the tracks are running at full power and the radio control unit sends a information to the train on the enough of speed of the train.

I'm sorry, but I cannot decipher what you are trying to say. Are you talking about DCC?

QUOTE: .I'm looking for information and help on getting a Radio Control Train Set. ... Any help in finding more information about Radio Controlled Systems would be great.

OK. Look up ARISTO

[Anonymous]

Check out the Aristo-Craft Trains/Crest Electronics Train Engineer. They offer an HO scale system, CRE-55000. It is a radio control system, not a wireless throttle system for DCC. Discount Trains Online sells it, but I am sure other places do as well.
Tim