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TomO:
I have been following (& I have seen some of u 2) the development of the diesel Proto Throttle by ISE and Scott Thornton on the MRH forum site. I have used this Throttle at Trainfest in Milwaukee last November and was even more blown away than I was expecting. I love my RailPro though!

Since this is a open source adventure does anyone here see a way the Proto Throttle can be incorporated into RailPro? I am on the pre-order list for the throttle as even if I have to (heavens forbid) buy a DCC (ESU’s) system to use it, I might. I have a one town switching layout and that is what the Proto Throttle excels at, switching. This is an ideal Throttle for switching fans. I would still use RailPro but for the main line runs and transfers.

See the throttle at ProtoThrottle.com or the MRH forums threads by searching Proto Throttle. Looking for some thoughts as I AM NOT an electronics guy.

TomO

William Brillinger:
I've been watching that throttle to, and I have played with one. It's very neat indeed.
The only way to make this work will RailPro will be if Ring Engineering builds an interface for it.

Dean:
$600.00!! that's 13 Railpro decoders; a much better investment. And you still have to have a DCC system?
Doesn't the LM-3s have notching and braking?

Alan:
Curious to see how the notching works out. 8 speed steps seems terribly limiting. Even though the Proto Throttle is using DCC 128 steps, ultimately the handle limits you to 8 steady-state running steps (not accelerating or decelerating). Didn't DCC migrate from 14 steps to 128 steps to mitigate this very problem? Eight seems like a giant leap backwards in the name of "prototypical".

Dean - I'm right with you. $600!!! Not gonna happen here.

TomO:
I’m not sure where the $600 is coming from as I have read the price of 2 sound equipped locomotives, but yes it is not inexpensive at even around 460. The price isn’t so much my concern as to having to go to DCC to use it, as I have nothing DCC and really don’t want any. RailPro is too easy to use in comparison. I’m not going to bother Tim with something maybe a couple of us might use. I’ll email ISE direct.

If we are able to duplicate the notching and brake applications I haven’t discovered that yet, but will start looking and experimenting again.

Thank you
TomO

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