You come home from a show, op session, etc and find 2 9v batteries for your radio throttle in your pants pockets. Dang if you can't remember if they are the replacements you brought or did I replace the batteries???... LOL
yeah, you are officially diagnosed with DCCitis. incurable. not life threatening, but can be hard on the wallet
You compulsively install sound decoders into all 100 locomotives of your fleet. $$$$ Ouch. Talk about a whap to the wallet!
[Nervous laughter, while looking about to see if I am being followed.] Just bought a DZ143 today to try in one of my LL SW1200 switchers... which I once ebayed for, oh, a little less than what I just spent on the decoder. Hum-de-dum. [whistles]
You install sound decoders in all your son's Thomas HO engines AND spend time downloading the real Thomas character's whistles onto each of their chips!
which sound decoder did you use that fit? yeah, i'm a dcc nut and i want to add sound to my daughter's thomas trains.
I use the ESU Loksound decoders as the dcc chip isn't very large and they have lots of options for speakers and enclosures. The only one I have not been able to successfully get a sound chip in is Percy... he has a decoder, but I've not found a speaker and a place to put it that will work... yet. The loksound chips also allow you to use their programmer software and device to download sound files and / or create your own and download them on the chip. This is how I get the proper sounding whistles for Thomas and co.
I've had over 20 decoders available to hardwire into my LL SWs for the past 4 years...but I've been buying factory installed decoder equipped GPs, SDs, (and more recently) NW-2s and MP-15 with drop in decoders instead. Soooo...Doc, What's the diagnosis?? I'm spending a chunk of change on DCC locos, but I'm avoiding DCC decoder installations... Oh, yeah,....I can set speed tables without using the manual. Hmmm... I suppose it's terminal. (SteamDonkey...Please start a thread and post lots of pics as you go. Who's method will you be using... Joe Ellis', Andre K's, or Stephano C's?)
You spend 10 hours wiring and re-wiring trying to fit a decoder into this little guy (n scale): Suprisingly you finally get it to fit and therfore... After the 100 sound decoded loco's, Locos worth less than the decoder itself and topping it off with a few Sound enabled Thomas memorabilia... Your satisfied with the most realistic running and operation of trains on your layout whether its 3x5 or 50x50+!! :tb-biggrin::tb-biggrin:
I just purchased $65 worth of sound decoder and speakers to put in an engine I got on sale for $50. (See Sound in Budd RDC unit thread) My biggest indicator of being a DCC "nut" is the fact that I have slowly stopped running any engines that are not decoder equipped. I am starting to even favor the sound equipped DCC engines over the non-sound DCC engines. Its financial insanity.
When you don't run any trains while you wait for 10 months for a decoder to be installed because you shake too much to do it yourself.
