03-05-2012, 04:40 AM
O.k. take a look here:
DC version, DCC ready:
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DCC sound version:
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Also the ALCO FA-1 / FB-1 are now offered either as DC versions which are DCC ready or DCC sound versions.
There is defintely a change in their offering politics.
And their 45-ton has an intergrated decoder on the main PCB. But this is also a decoder of the "generation digital stone age".
But as a luck they made provisions to install a better decoder. On the mainboard there ist a row of small drillings (aka Sollbruchstelle) were you can cut the part of the PCB, which contains the decoder, off. Also there are small soldering pads on the remaining main PCB. For this you can easy refit an new decoder by hard wiring. There is enough space for an N-Gauge decoder to fit.
My 2 cent
Lutz
DC version, DCC ready:
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DCC sound version:
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Also the ALCO FA-1 / FB-1 are now offered either as DC versions which are DCC ready or DCC sound versions.
There is defintely a change in their offering politics.
And their 45-ton has an intergrated decoder on the main PCB. But this is also a decoder of the "generation digital stone age".
But as a luck they made provisions to install a better decoder. On the mainboard there ist a row of small drillings (aka Sollbruchstelle) were you can cut the part of the PCB, which contains the decoder, off. Also there are small soldering pads on the remaining main PCB. For this you can easy refit an new decoder by hard wiring. There is enough space for an N-Gauge decoder to fit.
My 2 cent
Lutz