Hello everyone!  My name is Roger and I am in the process of construction of a G scale layout.  In April I retired for the second time from the Railway Industry.  40 years providing capital equipment to rail vehicle maintenance facilities globally was a great career.  In my youth I enjoyed HO and N scale layouts before high school, work and college took my time.  I was exposed to a G scale railway about 25 years ago and it was dormant until early this year when I knew I would retire for good. Since then I have spent a lot of time online looking a G scale websites as well as layouts on YouTube.  I have purchased some used equipment and have been learning a lot working on locomotives bringing them back to life.  I learned of RailPro early in my research and liked all of the features with the loading sharing ability possibly the most attractive.  Don Sweet, RCS of New England, shared a lot of information and experience with me about RailPro so I purchased a system.  I am hoping to have my first install complete soon and operating on a local layout.  I live in northern New York and plan to have my own Garden train layout operating before snow flies!

The advanced mode has worked fine as long as the RP loco is the 'lead' loco (though not necessarily in the physical lead position). But that way I can't use the sounds for the lead DCC loco.

I noticed on the Soundtraxx website, there is a database of various decoder engine installs, sorted by manufacturer.  (https://soundtraxx.com/reference/decoder-selector)

I wonder if Railpro of RPUG has considered putting together a similar information set. This would be very useful for people who are looking to add new engines (both old and new) to avoid surprises of "not enough room under the hood"

nce runs 128 ss...

sounds like he does not completely understand the options you can use with NCE consisting.

You use "old style" consisting, leave the original loco addresses, no programming is changed in the decoders... perhaps he was thinking only advanced consisting (which probably works, but might need some help, as it uses some special CVs and the RP most likely does not support them.

but the speed step protocols supported by NCE are 14, 28, and 128.... so I think it's just his inexperience with NCE or he got some bad info.

Greg

I won't venture an opinion on Tim's knowledge but will say that for myself, I have only utilized advanced consisting with NCE. I'll try the old MU protocol and see what happens, thanks.

Elsewhere, this week a friend's DCC booster actually melted due to an internal short. Glad I don't have to worry about that. 

Yes, but Tim Ring told me you can't MU RP and NCE because of the different speed step protocols.

Separately, I couldn't connect to Ring's server Saturday, I read that connectivity was knocked out by a storm? I will try again, but didn't know what the situation was.