Modeling Layout Visits Member video: Demonstration of Keep-Alive Digital Command Controler decoder in an HO scale short wheel base locomotive

Member video: Demonstration of Keep-Alive Digital Command Controler decoder in an HO scale short wheel base locomotive

By Jenny Freeland | March 19, 2014

| Last updated on November 7, 2022

Watch the before-and-after shots of this decoder installation

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Here’s a short demonstration showing how a DCC decoder with a Keep-Alive capacitor can help short wheel base locomotives get through complicated track work that they sometimes stall on. In this example, a TCS KAM4 decoder is installed in a Athearn SW1000 switcher. Operation of the switcher before and after installation is shown for comparison.

Video shot by Kevin Smith

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