When we set up downtown, we did not wait for the modules to be laid
out on the floor but as soon as the unloading was done legs were
started. With the accurate layout plan we should not have a problem doing
legs as soon as someone is available and the modules are at least on the right
side of the room. There is enough to do at all times that
there is no reason to be waiting for one thing while several people are standing
around.
So am I to take from my limited reading of this that the DCS system can
handle multiple TIUs in a layout that is interconnected ? Or would
the segments need to be electrically isolated. If isolated, then the
Lionel system would not work without multiples of that too. The Lionel
system did not like duplicating bases because it caused signal confusion with
the time difference of the commands from the two bases.
Because we use the corner jumper wires I would think that we have reduced
the number of connections to get to any point but not the wire length.
Scott
Here is more from the Independent HiRailers Midwest Division. I like how
they put legs on modules as soon as they come out of the trailer. That may
save us time and would definitely be safer as noone can trip, fall, and
get hurt on modules, etc which has happened in the past.
I really think we need to make a committee to study the MTH DCS system
and fix it using what the IHMD and others on the O Gauge Forum have
done. If we can't make it more reliable then it should be pulled out of
the layout because it seems to me that the DCS causes more frustration to us
as a whole than anything.
Ricky