Hello all, I decided to ask here since I am in N Scale. Can you run an analog train with the PowerCab system? If you can, what is the code you assign to the engine? Thanks... Ron
Digitrax is address 00. Yours may be the same.? You could try dialing up 00 and see what happens with a non-decodered loco. Either it will run or nothing at all.
Powercab doesn't support running a DC Loco - which I missed when buying mine; still don't regret getting it though. Somewhere in the DCC Forum, someone has/suggested putting a mobile decoder in a box and hard wiring it between Powercab's PNP and the Track. Then by using the default Address of 03, you will be able to run a DC loco. That's a solution I'm going to try out myself - somewhere around the 12th of Never at this rate. :tb-err:
That's a neat idea. Of course, you'd probably need to put some kind of switch in there to switch between the hard wired decoder and the DCC output. I never thought of doing that. I was just going to wire up an old DC throttle and block it.
Wouldn't it just be easier to put a decoder in your dc loco? There are new decoders designed to work with many locos that you'd think wouldn't take one. Check out TCS's website.
Yes it would - if it was your own loco. But what would you do for a guest loco that was only DC? I can't afford to fit DCC decoders in all my locos in one go - certainly not at UK prices (US $27, UK £27 - at current exchange rates that's about $54). Whereas this, in theory at least, would allow me to give all my locos a run, rather than just leaving them sit in their boxes - or worse, selling them to fund the purchase of decoders.
