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Let me be an expert on something I know very little about, but before I go further, I will say I have been running the Digi- Chief for about 6 years now. <br /> <br />DCC is a systems of communications. It is easy to get the command station, et. al. mixed up with running "stuff" on your layout even though the "stuff" may be run using DCC communications protocol. If I were going to get "fancy" and run lighting and lets say animation using DCC protocol, I would probably be looking at some kind of computer program to run the shebangs but most of the shebangs would need individual (cheap) decoders to identify themselves to the computer program. Here is where the waters get murky for me. I don't know if a program like Railroad & Co (right name?) could handle this - I suspect it can - or another cheaper program, but if it can't I suspect cheaper programs will come along that will allow it. <br /> <br />DCC is just a communications protocol so your questions really is this: can lighting be run in a DCC communications protocol? And the answer is yes.
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