Pat, the wiring going to the face plates isn't really that much different. Once they go to the terminal strips your cabling is much better. And you're not running that second wire to the DPDT switches. That's another 26 wires to route and you need a separate terminal strip for the all the red feeds and all the green ones. I'm calling them red and green since there's a red light on one side of the Z-4000 and a green light on the other. I also have an additional LED at each block to register whether it's being powered by the red or green throttle. That's another wire from each DPDT. Plus each of those LEDs has to have a current limiter resistor in series with it, so more soldering and more shrink tubing. I'm not being defensive here. It's that Cab Control just adds a ton of complexity. I'll have to keep it even when I finally get DCS since I'll be running about 80% conventional control. All my field wiring is home run so when DCS arrives it will work with my system. At least I built that into the design.
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