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Barebones DCC for the Workbench

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Posted by Stevert on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:01 PM

fieryturbo
fieryturbo

The PR3 is pretty easy to use, and has the added bonus of being able to program the absolute cheapest widest variety of the sound decoders on the market.

 

 

As a long-time PR3 user, I thought I should fix that for you. 

 

 

 

 There's a cheaper programmable sound decoder than the SDH166D?

 

Probably.

But the point I was trying to make is that the PR3 is not limited to programming only the "absolute cheapest" sound decoders.

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Posted by NittanyLion on Sunday, September 4, 2016 10:09 PM

In the end, I waffled on both and ended up settling that I'd buy a PR3.  Reasoning that I had two weeks before I could do go buy one (opening weekend of college football meant no hobby shop drive on Saturday and out of state wedding next weekend), I figured maybe I'd poke at that DCC++ again.

Second motor shield made the difference, as did a much more robust testing process, and I ended up getting it to work.  Turns out I ended up with my original plan anyhow!

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