KemacPrrOne thing to consider that has not ben mentioned is the capacity of the system. The Digitrax Super Chief has a capacity of 120 active locomotives at any one time. NCE has a capacity of 256. Since Digitrax uses universal consisting as their standard a consist can eat up 2-3-4 slots depending on size of the consist...
One thing to consider that has not ben mentioned is the capacity of the system. The Digitrax Super Chief has a capacity of 120 active locomotives at any one time. NCE has a capacity of 256. Since Digitrax uses universal consisting as their standard a consist can eat up 2-3-4 slots depending on size of the consist...
Phoebe VetIf you have that many trains running at once, I suppose you could have to independent layouts on the same terrain. Then you would have 240 slots. Three layouts and you would have 360 slots.
Unlikely. Do you really see more than 40 cabs at a time? That's with ALL of the motive power in triple head consist with NOT using DCC Advanced Consisting....and they would all have to be really old decoders not to support that.
In all likelyhood to push the limits, you would have to have 100 or more running at the same time with 100 seperate throttles.
And there are programs out there which automatically remove "stack" elements based on the time the last command was issued. Stopped locomotives get removed first. Then they are removed based on the last time a command was issued.
If you have more than 120 physically moving at once, I would be impressed. I would even fly to see that layout!
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
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Check the size of their layout. They COULD do it.
http://www.tmrci.com/
And here's Ken's. http://kc.pennsyrr.com/layouts/kmccorry/
Neither is you 'average' full basement layout, not by a long shot.
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rrinker Check the size of their layout. They COULD do it. http://www.tmrci.com/
Apparently they aren't too worried about it. I see digitrax components in the photos.
Which is why I'm curious about their operating methodology since their layout is one of the few that's as big as or bigger then Ken's and it seems to work for them. Although I did once hear a rumor about a 'special' DCS100 with 255 slots.