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Hi, <br />I am very new to the whole HO world. My intrest originated in O gauge, but due to budget constraints I think that HO is going to be much more affordable for me. I will hopefully be starting a modest layout in my garage in the near future, and will most defenitely be going the DCC route. I was at a train show last week and the one vendor I was talking with said that if you run trains and passenger cars with regular light bulbs(not l.e.d.'s) while under DCC it will blow out all of the bulbs! Is this true? What happens to engines that have L.E.D's for light? In the O gauge world you set you voltage for 18 volts, and you didn't have to worry about bulbs blowing out. Is it the same in HO? When you want to run DCC, you power up the transformer to a set voltage, and then run trains, is this correct? Any help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks <br /> <br />Jeff Strong
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