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Reply to "UPDATE From MTH....DCS/Proto-Sound Lives On....!"

The whole DCC thing is kinda off topic for this, IMHO, but I do have experience running 3R DCC.  MTH states you can not run DCS and DCC at the same time, and you can possible damage the board if it's set to the wrong thing.

Personal experience running TMCC and DCC at the same time, it does not work!  The TMCC locomotives either ignore all commands, or shoot off at full speed.

Personal experience running Legacy and DCC at the same time, it does work with some caveats, in fact I was running both on the same track just last night.  Smoke units work okay, but not the best, so I just leave them off.  The main issue is electrocouplers.  Out of all my locomotives, only one will fire the couplers when DCC is on the track, most will not fire.  But the main issue is I do have a couple where they don't fire until I cut power to the track, which means they were engaged the entire time from pushing the button to cutting the track power.  If not noticed you'll burn the coil out.  So I don't fire couplers.  Remember, in S gauge, the Legacy locomotives are also DCC, and the upcoming hybrid 4-4-0's from Lionel are Legacy/DCC.

Back to the topic on hand, IMHO, seems silly to keep DCS alive if there are no new locomotives for it to go in, unless they are planning to go full into command upgrades as a competitor to ERR.

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