There’s nothing wrong with vintage electronics. In fact vintage trains same category. Sometime in the 90s - 2000s depending on the item the QC went in the shitter and you don’t know if brand new in box even the item will even work. Be it a locomotive or a dcc system. Obviously I know nothing about LGB (we have a g scale subgroup in the club) but this is from the era before electronics are total crap. It’s because it’s not from china. Some china is fine but some I call it counterfeit because it works temporarily out of the box if at all. I am running a dcc system from digitrax that is at least 16 years old. And buying used throttles for it for the same reason. Because it still works flawlessly and consistently. There is a Lionel channel that I watch and he is selling all his Lionel (modern legacy full electronics) because almost none of it is problem free. But he can’t figure out why the older sets from 1998 and 1965 converted for inflation with less features are going for more. It’s because the older stuff is made better. Don’t get me wrong I love my Broadway limited. But a lot of people have had trouble with it and no trouble with kato. I think paragon4 is the version we’re on which means it took 4 versions of decoder to get everyone happy. Those days of 2 feeders and just plug it in the wall and it just works are absolutely behind us. Unless you go on eBay etc and find stuff like this to play with. My question I have is are you going to be adding sound? Surely there is room. Or Does LGB make a sound unit with all the do dads? I can’t really remember did you do alot of sound in N? It was mostly kato correct?
You can seemingly add sound decoders to the older loco’s (sort of) but Lehmann, in my humble opinion made a terrible mess of rolling out dcc at the time which is a shame. I don’t have plans to add sound at the moment and never added sound to my Kato loco’s either. The best modern DCC solution offering value and a lot of options can be found with the guys at ML Train in Germany - www.ml-train.de/. They even do a dcc controlled uncoupler which is slick. Use a browser that can translate to English.
@@rhopkin2512 do not bother putting digitrax drop in sound in your kato. It isn’t worth the money and is too quiet. An example of bad rushed to market. If you want N scale sound BLI best value. Yes ESU but as far as turnkey no programmer to buy and no milling your engines. BLI is the turnkey best option. Scaletrains sounds great but the wheels are out of gauge lol. So they can put ESU and all that detail but they can’t make wheelsets now. Now that you have dcc working on G It won’t be long before you do something with sound, why not the hard part is over. I like the black tank steamer that you have that came in the double set it’s sharp, like the old Arnold N scale stuff DB prototype
There’s nothing wrong with vintage electronics. In fact vintage trains same category. Sometime in the 90s - 2000s depending on the item the QC went in the shitter and you don’t know if brand new in box even the item will even work. Be it a locomotive or a dcc system. Obviously I know nothing about LGB (we have a g scale subgroup in the club) but this is from the era before electronics are total crap. It’s because it’s not from china. Some china is fine but some I call it counterfeit because it works temporarily out of the box if at all. I am running a dcc system from digitrax that is at least 16 years old. And buying used throttles for it for the same reason. Because it still works flawlessly and consistently. There is a Lionel channel that I watch and he is selling all his Lionel (modern legacy full electronics) because almost none of it is problem free. But he can’t figure out why the older sets from 1998 and 1965 converted for inflation with less features are going for more. It’s because the older stuff is made better. Don’t get me wrong I love my Broadway limited. But a lot of people have had trouble with it and no trouble with kato. I think paragon4 is the version we’re on which means it took 4 versions of decoder to get everyone happy. Those days of 2 feeders and just plug it in the wall and it just works are absolutely behind us. Unless you go on eBay etc and find stuff like this to play with. My question I have is are you going to be adding sound? Surely there is room. Or Does LGB make a sound unit with all the do dads? I can’t really remember did you do alot of sound in N? It was mostly kato correct?
You can seemingly add sound decoders to the older loco’s (sort of) but Lehmann, in my humble opinion made a terrible mess of rolling out dcc at the time which is a shame. I don’t have plans to add sound at the moment and never added sound to my Kato loco’s either. The best modern DCC solution offering value and a lot of options can be found with the guys at ML Train in Germany - www.ml-train.de/. They even do a dcc controlled uncoupler which is slick. Use a browser that can translate to English.
@@rhopkin2512 do not bother putting digitrax drop in sound in your kato. It isn’t worth the money and is too quiet. An example of bad rushed to market. If you want N scale sound BLI best value. Yes ESU but as far as turnkey no programmer to buy and no milling your engines. BLI is the turnkey best option. Scaletrains sounds great but the wheels are out of gauge lol. So they can put ESU and all that detail but they can’t make wheelsets now. Now that you have dcc working on G It won’t be long before you do something with sound, why not the hard part is over. I like the black tank steamer that you have that came in the double set it’s sharp, like the old Arnold N scale stuff DB prototype
Hand held cams sucks