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G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: TwinStar on May 24, 2021, 08:37:29 AM ---Hasn't Ring been 'designing' an N scale decoder now for at least the last 8 years? RailPro is due for a HUGE update/upgrade and yet he can't even release a N scale decoder or an HO one with a 21 pin? Man, and I used to ridicule DCC or being behind the times...

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I can't really speak for the N scale as I know so little about it but I suspect Ring doesn't see the same market as HO and large scale, which I think the latter went over in a big way so he probably devotes the major part of his energy to them, plus the difficulty of shrinking the transmitter even more for N scale could be problematic, given that none of the other comparable wireless systems out there are for N scale either. Not defending the lack of progress, just throwing out some very real speed humps.

As for the 21 pin version, that almost beggars belief that that hasn't happened or even interest gauged. One would have to be very disconnected from what's happening in the model train world to not see that everything is coming set up for 21 pins these days (seriously, when was the last release anyone saw that came with a 9 pin plug?) or people are buying 21 pin motherboards to convert models that don't have 21 pin motherboards in them, and room for harnesses is fast becoming non existent in models.

RailPro is starting to loose ground back to DCC at a concerning rate. While European DCC systems have had much of what RP has had in the way of graphical control etc this wasn't much concern as the use in the North American market is negligible. With what TCS and ISE are doing the threat to RP is real. It won't be long before they figure out DCC directly to the locomotive like how RP operates. The only thing we'll have left after that is load sharing.

- Tim

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