Re: agenda item: DCS purchase

[Scott A Smiley <sc.smiley@juno.com>]

This is helping me.  What I read at the end of the last one is that we
would have to use 2 remote units to control a TMCC engine on the DCS
track, the DCS for the power and the TMCC for the engine.  When we shut
down, we would have to turn off the power from the other controller after
we stopped the engine.

In order to keep from rewiring the whole power box, we could put this DCS
thing on track 1 by removing the power master and inserting the DCS box?


On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:07:45 -0500 "Ira Schneider"
<ira_schneider@Iname.com> writes:
> We would REPLACE one of the PowerMasters with the MTH TIU.  That 
> track would get its
> power through the TIU.  A command controlled engine would get its 
> signal from the
> Lionel Command Base, regardless of which controller we use to signal 
> the Command Base.
> 
> We would have two choices.  We could either use a Lionel CAB-1 to 
> send the signals
> to the Command Base or we could use the MTH Remote Control through 
> the TIU (and
> the TIU-Command Base cable) to send the signals to the Command Base. 
>  In either
> case, the TIU would control the track voltage.  If we do use the 
> CAB-1 to send the signals
> to the Command Base, we would have the odd situation that we would 
> have to use the
> MTH remote controller to set the track voltage to maximum (i.e. 18 
> volts) then use the
> CAB-1 to control the engine.  I suppose that is not too different 
> than our current operation
> where, if we leave the PowerMaster in conventional mode, we have to 
> select Track on the
> CAB-1, dial up the voltage to maximum, then select Engine to control 
> the engine.  We just
> have to remember to switch the voltage back to zero when switching 
> engines, like we do
> now.
> 
> 
> 
> Ira
> 
> 
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> TTAT members reflector.
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> 

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