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I'm currently running 3 DCC systems on my layout. Don't ask me why, but it's to do with different systems not able to do what i want. Loco, Accessory and Block control.. My loco control is by Gaugemaster (MRC). My block / occupancy control is with Digitrax DCS50 as a Master, and accessory control is with a Digitrax DCS52 so that memory is retained when I do something silly like drive a loco over a "closed" set of turnouts and the loco controller shorts out. I set up the 3 systems on JMRI using methods outlined elsewhere on this thread and linked the Gaugemaster Prodigy to the DCS50 through the Loconet but inserting a resistor into the link rather than directly
? My Tabs are MRC (Loco control Prefix M), L (Loconet Occupancy control using the DCS50) and L2 (Switch / Turnout control using the DCS52) Everything seems to work together well including Logix.
I do the layout specification on one computer with everything set to internal. I save this to a network drive currently connected to my home router, and run it from another computer which has the physical connections set up to the layout, also WiFi connected to my Router. Each computer knows whether there is a physical or virtual connection and I can modify on one computer and test on another.
A lot of it is suck it and see, and i have changed things as I learn about JMRI and DCC. 12 months ago I was running 14 DC controllers with rotary switches for the various areas, which are gradually being bypassed and removed (the switches that is) as I learn more about DCC. One 4 channel controller is being retained as a DC and AC power source for accessories and also as 2 slave controllers for loconet. with one channel being retained for running in keeping the rotary switch rewired with 3 positions, DC running in and testing, Programming mode, and DCC direct to test the programming before transferring the loco to normal DCC control.