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TwinStar:
Welcome Glenn and Semper Fi from a former Army 67U!
darryl.trains:
In the essence of short cuts, TOF = the old fardt. In the military I was either a 93E or 93F depending on the job and location. Let's see, NCOIC, team commander and just plain fill in as needed. What a military life !! And the ride was something else. Now in Arid-Zona... Oh yes !! Very retired... Not Arid-Zona right now. SHOWERS. !!!!!
GMM6809:
--- Quote from: Alan on March 07, 2020, 07:13:15 PM ---RP is 0.1% increments = 1000 speed steps. It is a percentage of the respective loco's top speed as set in the Advanced Loco Setup.
DCC uses 128 speed steps because 128 is a magic number that works well with digital registers ie. hardware is the reason for 128. RP modules are microprocessors in and of themselves and are software driven so command format is not constrained to the physical digital architecture. This fact is what really sets RP apart from DCC. RP is true microprocessor communicating with microprocessor - configurable software on both ends.
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So the “top speed” is the load test when you first connect the Loco Module? That being said, I think i will as my question in another thread as to not derail this forum topic.
--- Quote from: TwinStar on March 08, 2020, 09:42:53 PM ---Welcome Glenn and Semper Fi from a former Army 67U!
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Thank you and thank you for your service as well.
--- Quote from: darryl.trains on March 08, 2020, 11:07:51 PM ---In the essence of short cuts, TOF = the old fardt. In the military I was either a 93E or 93F depending on the job and location. Let's see, NCOIC, team commander and just plain fill in as needed. What a military life !! And the ride was something else. Now in Arid-Zona... Oh yes !! Very retired...
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Oh! Alright then! ;D The more you know! Nice to meet you lol
Stephen K:
Hello everyone.
A genuine Rail Pro newbie here. Had my first HO layout as a kid in the 60's. Grew away from it as I grew up but never forgot it. About 10 years ago I built a layout with hopes of getting my son interested. That didn't happen but I kept at it anyway. Two years ago I packed it all up as my wife of almost 39 years and I moved to a new home. All the train stuff is still in boxes in the basement. Been working since the move to get a train room ready. Finally almost ready to start bench work. Made the decision some time ago that this would be a step up to DCC, not another DC layout. But what system? Did quite a lot of searching the net and stumbled into Ring Engineering's Rail Pro. Fell in love with it immediately. Did more reading to vet it out best I could and remained convinced this would be my next system. Having never done DCC I really had very little idea what it would take to convert my old DC locos but feared it would be a significant challenge. So a few weeks ago I bought a couple modern locos. One "DCC Ready" and one with "DCC and Sound" already on board thinking this would be a better place to start. I tore into my new locos to see what the insides were all about and decided this wouldn't be such a big deal after all. Last week I ordered my new Rail Pro system. Hope it arrives soon. My only question right now is about wiring speakers. I'll post that question in a different forum category. Looking forward to getting this system going but it'll be a wile before I have track laid. Maybe I can piece together a small test track on my workbench just to see it work.
Stephen
nodcc4me:
Welcome, Stephen. I also had boxes of locomotives and cars I started collecting in the 70's. About eight years ago I decided to build a small HO layout in the basement. After much research I decided to go with RailPro. It was fun unpacking everything, and RP was definitely a good choice.
You should definitely set up a test track and pick up a CI-1 USB interface while you are waiting. I have a small test track right in front of my computer where I can test everything I work on while sitting down, without even needing a controller.
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