https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/11/using-two-dcc-on-same-layout.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-two-dcc-on-same-layout Model railroads and model trains Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/11/using-two-dcc-on-same-layout.html#comment-7702 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:29:45 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3318#comment-7702 Why would you want to use two different DCC systems? and on the same train layout? That is doubling your money in the layout. The decoders in the locomotives will operate no matter which one you use. Choose the one system with the features you like and sell the other DCC system and purchase something you really want. “That is just my two cents”.
Don J CARY, NC USA

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/11/using-two-dcc-on-same-layout.html#comment-7686 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:25:39 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3318#comment-7686 Jonathon, As of right now if you have digitrax to power your layout the controllers are also digitrax. If your buddy has NCE , his controllers are NCE. Unless they have made some changes recently you cannot use NCE Controllers on a Digitrax System. I believe this is also the same for any other DCC System. But if you have digitrax chips in your engine you can run on his layout using the NCE system. Not a Problem. Doesn’t matter which chip you put into your engine. Your buddy can do the same and bring his engines to your layout. BUT……Youe want to dispatch your engines from his system before you leave and same when your buddy leaves yours. The reason is It leaves those engines in the person’s DCC System memory and clogs the system. Also if you have a consist made on one layout the other system will not recognize it and you have engines that will not move when you get home. Break the consists and dispatch the engines before taking them home. from Newman

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