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Here's a quick test I did of DCC and battery power last year.  It's an Overland MP15AC chassis with Maxon coreless motor upgrade, Tam Valley DRS1 receiver, Stanton BPS-v4 battery manager, Stanton 2P 850mA battery, Loksound Select HO, TCS Keep Alive and Tang Band 1925s speaker. No tuning of motor slow running yet.  Operated by Digitrax duplex DT402D and Tam Valley DRS1 transmitter. Ignore the backgound hiss, that's from my stupid phone camera.

Overall this is a very nice package imho. I doubt it would fit in a Yoder 44-Tonner, but it did fit in the MP15AC and I think it would fit in an Atlas SW9 with a bit of juggling. It worked great, but in my particular case the radio range wasn't enough inside a brass loco shell. It worked fine in a plastic shell.

I would have stuck with it if I was starting out now, and didn't have a 25-year investment in track-powered DCC that I wanted to run in parallel while making the transition to battery power. Plus I got hooked on ProtoThrottle next but that's another story... 

Last edited by Pete M

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