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DCC Speed
Chris has a question for DCC experts and asks:
"This is my first layout I've now done and I jumped into DCC straight off. I'm glad I did it but I have just invested in a Kato Bullet train in analogue. It is blisteringly fast but once the Decoder board is inserted it slows down. I have set the acceleration and top speed and volts on the board to maximum but even this programming has not changed things. I tried removing the decoder chip from a Dapol loco and that increased it's top speed so it was not the decoder chip at fault. Does anyone know if this is to be expected and if not what I may have done wrong?"
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Do you have enough power for your layout? DCC decoders take up a little energy to do what they have to do. Try adding a booster.