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Blue Line DCC Programming notes????????
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<p>Im troubled.</p><p>Here we are talking and reading manuals in DCC speak where there should be no DCC on these engines.</p><p>Are we dealing with SOUND DECODERS only on these things?</p><p>If they DO have a decoder then why casterate them and do things halfway?! Put motor control in there and yer set. Make it a full DCC engine.</p><p>Im thinking that I may feel strongly about an opinion to just ignore these Blue Line Products and stay with items that are either fully DCC at the factory with other manufactors or install my own DCC and sound into the analog engines which I am already trying to do this year.</p><p>Im sorry, but questions that come up on the Blueline pushes me closer to the belief that we are seriously screwing up and confusing the aspiring modeler who wants a taste of DCC without the expensive systems that go with it. These engines would be no better than the el cheapo bomb systems that only give 1 amp and no read back CV ability.</p><p>Where did we end up down here with these half breed engines that think they are DCC and yet are analogs?</p><p>Friends, we need to stop doing this, this is not good.</p><p>I think it is far better to offer an engine completely without sound/DCC and offer a seperate power chassis with sound AND DCC already installed READY to go for those that want it.</p><p>On the ones without sound and DCC, speakers should be properly built with baffles and a socket provided so that a buyer may simply plug in thier own decoder of choice when they are ready.</p><p>**Sweeps blueline manuals into the trashbin... all of this is confusing and unnecessary to our younger Modelers who may just be starting out in the land of DCC for the first time.</p><p>I aspire to the KISS principle. Keep It Simple STUPID. One decoder, One locomotive.</p><p>If I had to program a SOUND Decoder and THEN program a Digitrax or some aftermarket MOTOR decoder TOO after installing it... I think I would want Demerol and Versed to forget this whole stressful experience.</p><p>I stick with buying analog engines from someone else and install my own speakers/decoder or QSI or similar fully equippted engines from the factory ready to go. I know I dont need to hit my head on the wall over this blueline crap. <span class="smiley">[banghead]</span></p><p>Apologies, but this is the last time I post here.</p>
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