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bcochran75:
Hi Folks,
My name is Bob. I am currently working in G scale. I have done a number of Battery, R/C installations to my G scale Bachmann, LGB and other engines. I've used mostly AirWire/Phoenix Sound combinations. It seems that Phoenix Sound products are nowhere to be found now. A dealer I bought from told me to check out RailPro and in doing so I found this site.
I also have done a number of HO DCC installations and have a HO DCC layout in my grarage.
The interesting thing I find about G scale Battery power installing is that much of the knowledge you need, you have to gain by doing your own research. That stops many people in my garden railroad club from using battery power.
Fortunately I am no stranger to research.
With that in mind, the main thing that upsets me is the attitude by some modelers of "figure it out for yourself before you ask." I am willing to share what I know and if we all were like that there would be more of us in the hobby. At least share where you found what you know instead ridiculing a newbie as I have seen some "experts" do on other sites. We were all newbies once.
So here I am
G8B4Life:
Welcome Bob,
We have quite a few large scalers here now so you should be in good company. Note that posting activity isn't the highest here compared to other forums but ask away, even us small scalers will try to answer a large scale question if we can.
- Tim
MikeC:
Hi All:
I'm Mike in Central Florida. Working with G Gauge, outdoors. I'm making all my trains battery power, and chose to use the railpro system. So far have successfully converted a few engines to RailPro and battery, with many more to go. Found it to be fairly straight forward. As a side note, almost all my stuff is old, so not prewired for DCC.
MHoppe:
Hi, my name is Mitch Hoppe from the SF Bay Area and have been planning our layout and collecting G scale rolling stock for many years. Having recently retired, it is finally time to build my dream layout. Really looking forward to turning dirt in the next month or so.
I now have the ultimate decision of which way to go with powering and controlling the trains. RailPro looks very appealing to me. Primarily because we have a clean slate to work with. Right now everything is track powered engines with no DCC decoders or control systems.
This is a great hobby with some very knowledgeable and experienced folks. It will be great to share my journey and hear what others have to say along the way.
JRad:
Hi Mitch. I recently converted my fleet of Fn3 Scale (same track as G) to Railpro. I could be happier with the steam sound implementations, but overall I'm very happy. I'm able to do things with my indoor/outdoor RR that I previously only dreamed of. I considered DCC early on, via track power, but was convinced by those with bad experiences to not go that way. I went with a couple of the older systems before I tried RailPro. I have guest operated with a number of the current R/C systems out there like Airwire and Revo, but didn't care for the controller on either. Am convinced, that for me, RP is a perfect fit.
Are you considering battery power? Works very well with RP.
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