On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Prashant Bhandary wrote:

> A new standard, DCC, has been established for model trains. The signal is
> sent through the tracks. Normally the train has connections going directly
> from the tracks to the motor and you control speed and direction by
> controlling the voltage on the rails. But in this case, a decoder sits
> in between and decodes the packet and drives the motor appropriately.
> Now the decoder should fit inside a train and the scale of the train
> defines the magnitude of the problem. I model N scale which is 1:160
> and believe me when I say tiiiny I mean every i in that word.

  Unlimited possibilities! Multiple trains on a track. Collision detection.
Trains talking to trains. Trains talking to signals. Signals talking to
trains. Signals talking to signals. Trains switching points. Signals
switching points. Power down features. ... :-)
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