Re: agenda item: DCS purchase

["Steve Wise" <swise@aoot.com>]

>
> Also, even though the TIU can control up to 4 independent tracks, only 2
of them may be in
> conventional mode - the other 2 outputs are DCS command mode only, which
means we
> can't use them.  We could theoretically replace the two IC controllers
with the TIU and control
> tracks 2 and 3 through the DCS (or just one track to start).
>

A benifit of using the TIU on 2 & 3 is that we can then use the IC
controllers for 1 & 4.  Then we can run MTH trains on all four tracks
without problems (remember that the lionel powermasters do some sine wave
clipping or something that messes up protosounds units).