I found times that sometimes would connect and other not. I just kept trying. But my issues may very well be I am using windows 11 via Parallels on a Mac. My prior Mac with windows 7 had no issues.

That's great to hear that they take responsibility and stepped up. Love to hear it !

I'll echo Bill's comments.

The only issue I've seen is if you make a temporary adjustment that isn't saved, like say an increase in Master Volume, and there is a short in the system that is longer than your Keep-Alives can cover, your temporary setting will reset.

Otherwise as long as you got juice, you can run.

Just like Bill, I also have no experience with DCC mode.

No particular experience from me, I've not run RP on a club layout but I did run some back and forth as a test on a small exhibition layout once as a test. They were using an NCE powercab I believe.

What the club your thinking of joining uses, whether NCE or Digitrax or even another NMRA compliant DCC system matters not, you can plonk your RP equipped loco's down and control them as per normal using your HC (it has to be an NMRA compliant system - it's to do with the voltage levels on the track).

If you want to run your loco's in DCC mode using the clubs controllers then you can do that to, you just have to enable DCC mode in the LM and set it up.

There are a couple here who have run their RP stuff on club layouts quite a bit, one, who sadly no longer uses RP and no longer visits here used to use it on Free-mo setups (which are DigiTrax) without operational issue and another, member KPack, who has also done so (but from memory, probably faulty, never said what system the club used) without operational issue.

The only thing to be aware of is in DCC mode there is a few things that just don't work as well, for instance you can't consist using NCE.

The only other thing I can think of is you might need to explain RP to them if they've not heard about it before before you can put your loco's on the rails.

- Tim

i think many RailPro users (including myself) use #12 wire for the bus cable from the power supply(ies).  when i wired my layout, i found that 12AWG Romex was the cheapest way to go.  i stripped off the covering and used the black and white conductors--plus i have a supply of bare copper #12 wire that comes in handy for lots of things.  when i wanted to tap power from the #12 to the rail i stripped about 1" of insulation off the bus wires, wrapped the feeder wires around it a few times, and soldered the joint.  it has worked fine for me.

Ken