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Digital Command Control (DCC) is a scheme for controlling locomotives on a model railroad layout. It allows more than one locomotive to occupy the same electrical section of track.
The most basic Digital Command Control (DCC) system consists of several parts: a throttle, a command station, a booster, a decoder, and a power supply to run it all. Most systems also use a throttle network which allows multiple throttles to talk to the command station.
Command Station Command stations are the heart of the DCC system. They receive commands from a throttle network (such as the Digitrax Loconet), process them, and decide if it needs to make a DCC standardized packet to send to the decoders on a DCC system.
Full article Command station- DCC Manufacturers - A full list of DCC manufacturers.
- Top Level categories - Top level of categories
Understanding the basics
- Introduction to DCC - DCC Tutorial
- DCC advantage over DC - Why DCC is better than DC power.
- DCC versus Radio Control - Why DCC is better than R/C.
- Selecting a system - Help you select a DCC system right for you.
- Terms - Terms used throughout this website.
- Components of a standard DCC system:
- Command Station - Controls your DCC layout.
- Boosters - Getting power and signals to trains.
- Decoders - Includes stationary and mobile types.
- Power supplies - Getting power from standard electrical outlet to your booster.
- Throttles - Control your trains.
- Throttle Network - Connecting your throttles to the layout.
Intermediate Topics
Should include things like layout wiring, typical decoder installations, helper operations, basic decoder programming.
- Decoder installation - How to install a DCC decoder into a locomotive.
- Specific decoder installs - How to install a specific decoder for a specific application.
- Stationary decoder wiring - How to wire various stationary decoders, etc.
- Stationary decoder wiring#Wiring switches - Wiring switches
Advanced Topics
- Animation - Controlling animation with DCC
- Configuration variables - How a decoder stores data.
- Connecting your computer to DCC - Introduction to getting computers interfaced with DCC layouts
- DCC Software - Software for DCC - operations and/or programming
- MU consisting - Running more than one locomotive in a train.
- Signaling - How to wire signals, crossing gates, etc.
- Software - Software for model railroading
- Sound - Bring realism to your layout with sound.
Expert Topics
- Do-It-Yourself - Building DCC components from scratch - boosters, command stations, etc.
Appendix 1 - FAQs
- DCC FAQ - Frequently asked questions
- Help with current news
- Build DCC History article - starting with who get it started, the first system in use, etc.
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