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Alan:
Ring may be facing a scale problem (pun intended). Not model scale, production scale.

There is something called SoC - System on Chip. SoC is the reason so much complexity can be stuffed into your tiny cellphone. If the sales volume is sufficiently high then it becomes practical to design and fabricate the entire circuit on a single die rather than constructing from individual components as Ring products are currently manufactured. N scale probably needs SoC to be feasible. Not so sure he can sell enough of them to make the economics work.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/702/system-on-a-chip-soc

Tophat3:
Well, I guess its HO gauge then.
Been waiting since 2000 for dcc to become more user friendly. It seems more convoluted  then ever. So many module's for this and that. And as advertised, they tell you what they are but not what they do. Seems more work then fun.

Saw blue rail and s cab, looks promising for the future. Came across rail pro and thought, this is it! Just cant have it in n scale.

Just turned 50 and n scale now seems awfully  intricate and small, have to start thinking about eyesight  and dexterity,  so maybe HO is the right move.

Just really miss getting all that train in such a small space. There was always to me something charming about that scale.

Alan:

--- Quote from: Tophat3 on March 31, 2020, 02:20:08 AM ---Just turned 50 and n scale now seems awfully  intricate and small, have to start thinking about eyesight  and dexterity,  so maybe HO is the right move.

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I never wore glasses until my late 40's. There was a marked decline in my eyesight from age 55 or so onward. Now approaching mid sixties I have tri-focals. Looking back, I am glad I didn't choose N scale. HO is challenging enough today.


--- Quote from: Tophat3 on March 31, 2020, 02:20:08 AM ---Just really miss getting all that train in such a small space. There was always to me something charming about that scale.

--- End quote ---

A popular saying over on MRH... "The quality of the run is more important than the quantity of run." I believe it is true.

Paul Schmidt:

--- Quote from: Tophat3 on March 29, 2020, 09:15:12 PM ---Rolling up on 5 years now. Gotta feeling it's not going to happen.

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I'm thinking the same way by now.

Who will deliver first? Blackstone and it's long-promised HOn3 K-28, or RailPro and an N scale module?

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: Paul Schmidt on March 31, 2020, 06:48:56 AM ---Who will deliver first? Blackstone and it's long-promised HOn3 K-28...

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That's only been 7 years so far from announcement, you've still got time to go to beat some others. I wonder who the record holder is for announcement to delivery?

Back to the (sort of) topic at hand, SoC would be a good way to go regardless of the required size of the board, or what scale it's intended to be used with. I could easily imagine an LM or DCC decoder being like a Raspberry Pi: SoC, MicroSD card for storage (and OS if needed), just write a program for whatever you want to do with inputs and outputs (Ring does this already with his PIC based products).

The problem for Ring would be finding an existing SoC that could do what he wants and would fit, it would not be worth his while to create a SoC from scratch.

- Tim

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