5-DCC

[jondrd]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kchronister

QUOTE: Originally posted by jondrd

When the computer overrides your command does it say, "Dave, I can't do that....."

Jon

Is that abnormal? All my computers do that...

[jondrd]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MReditor

We'll have a demo/how-to video online soon. The footage is being edited now. By hand, of course.

It's not going to be like those Turner Classic Movies is it? I really dislike that coloration process.


Jon

[jondrd]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Icefoot

April issue? In hand? Man. The mail must be running slow here in NC. Haven't seen mine yet...

Icefoot,

Mail pace is going to pick up in SC. Recently announced that NASCAR will be taking over delivery contracts. If successful, NASCAR will bid on all mail contracts in the Southeast with bids eventually being submitted(if all goes well) for nationwide delivery followed by world wide and intergalaxtic contract bids. Spokesperson for the race organization stated, "We have all these underutilized pickup trucks that are only one or two years old. Sooo.......after considerable brain storming we came up with this idea to improve mail service. Not only will mail service improve but race truck owners will have another revenue stream for their trucks." Disadvantage is that mail will have to be picked up at your local sanctioned racetrack.(between race dates of course)

It should be noted that NASCAR is a copyrighted trademark and if I had a keyboard with one of those TM subscripts I would have used it. If suits are contemplated contact MTH.


Jon

[Anonymous]

hoi the question is is there some of you that have the system runing ,how is it operating ,how do you like it. and where can i get more info on it.
the www. # brings us back here at moderailroader so who can answer this.
I am asking this because we have moved and the new layout I would like to go to DCC.and can i keep my older engines,
with DCC can I keep them to.thanks.

[Anonymous]

Well thanks for that we will have to wait untill it comes uot .is there anny info anywhere.
Next can I put a decoter on older engines.
are the decots easy to make
thanks.

[dave9999]

Should we let him in on it??[8D] Dave

[jfugate]

Is April 1st a global "special day" or is it just an "American" thing? That could play a factor in whether or not you "get it" ...

[davekelly]

Joe,

Good point. I never thought of that.

[jfugate]

A quick google shows only France, Scotland, England, and the US particiapte in the April 1st "holiday". So if you are not from one of those places, then you probably have missed the significance of the 5-DCC system being announced in the April MR.

[Anonymous]

just fo some of our out of the country friends

SLF Controls industries ( reads like a personalized license plate)
Self Control Industries

5-DCC= oh you figure it out. Happy april fools.

[bsteel4065]

Hey kchronister, you can't get 6-DCC it would have to be 10-DCC. Unless one of your fingers was missing.
Of course, the forerunner to 5DCC was 0-5-0.
There is a known problem with the sound device however, it runs on quite long bursts carbon dioxide and so there is a small interuption in sound every 5 seconds as oxygen is taken in.

[dougfearon]

I have had 5-DCC since the day I was born. I used 5-DCC on my Hot Wheels cars for years, I just didn't know to call it that. Personally I really only need to use it if something derails. The big problem with 5-DCC that I see though is there is no lighting effects, and if you want to go exclusively with it, you have to open up every locomotive you own and rip out the motor and/or the drive gears. Oh yeah one more thing, it doesn't work in tunnels.[:D] Maybe if they figure out a solution... hmm.

[loathar]

I'll wait for the Hal9000 DCC to come out. Or the Kit TA version.(Michael, the locos getting away! Let's jump gourge!)

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar

I'll wait for the Hal9000 DCC to come out. Or the Kit TA version.(Michael, the locos getting away! Let's jump gourge!)

Tom,

I'd stay away from the HAL9000, if I were you. Isn't that the one that, when you first turn it on, plays the opening theme to 2001 Space Odyssey? (Which is really the beginning of Richard Strauss' tone poem, Also Sprach Zarathustra.) The rest of the time you are then forced to listen to Johann Strauss (no relation) waltzes whenever you run your layout. (Not entirely such a bad thing.)

And you know that the only way to defeat it is to open up the command station and slowly pull out memory chips one-by-one till the unit shuts down*....But then you can't run trains anymore. [%-)]

(Another) Tom

[*Be sure NOT to mention anything about doing this ahead of time. The manufacturers of the command station gave it the ability to read lips.]

[electrolove]

Sounds like a very nice system... [:-^]

[RedGrey62]

The only reason I came to this thread was that someone mentioned 5-DCC on the ridiculous thread that MTHRULES started. I'm glad I did, this made me [(-D], it made me [:(], okay, so it didn't make me cry.

Rick

[Anonymous]

Ah, I believe Brio have been offering trains with this system factory-fitted for over 20 years. Certainly I can recall using it when I was younger. Speed control wasn't great, it was easy to have a train run away downhill and derail if you didn't watch it closely.

[keystonecrossings]

You said it "doesn't cost an arm and a leg"...

...sure is pulling my leg!!!

[coal drag]

Mine is the enhancred 5-DCC. I control everything with my thoughts. No wiring at all., and all you do to the locos is bless them. Instant control. Its great at train shows. You can control all of the layouts !!!

[dougfearon]

Another thought I had is, you know those books that give simple instructions and advice on how to make things work, for example, Computers for Dummies? Well maybe a book will come out titled 5-DCC for Dummies.[:D] The manufacturers are going to have to crank up their production of 5-DCC compatible Locos. Are they going to still call them a dummy version?