@Ron045 posted:What is really comes down to is... How do you want to run your trains? Dedicated Controller, Cell phone/tablet, maybe both? Where do you want to run your trains (other than your layout)? Do you want to spend time running wire and soldering drops to your entire layout and constantly clean track or jump into the future of BPRC?
Have Fun!
Ron
Ron,
I understand where you're coming from, BUT:
- What about route management? -- Most of us have switches to throw that can't be thrown manually, some of us have many, many such switches. How do I easily and cost effectively convert these to BPRC?
- What about signals? -- Fewer of us have prototypical signaling systems, but even with just few simple signals on one's layout a significant amount of wiring is still needed.
(Hobbyists who are quite at home with BPRC in R/C cars, aircraft, and boats don't have either of these to deal with. BPRC makes complete sense for them.)
Until these two are addressed for trains I'm going to be running miles of wire anyway. And, because of the massive upgrade necessary to change all of my collection to BPRC, as pointed out by @gunrunnerjohn, BPRC is currently off my wish list, at least for the foreseeable future.
I will admit that it's worth tinkering with though -- but just for the sake of tinkering, for now.
Mike
