[Richard Johnson]

QUOTE (poliss @ 14 May 2008, 20:57) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>One of the great advantages of the Hornby decoder for us N Scalers is it's small size. It doesn't matter if another decoder has 10 times the spec. and is half the price if it won't fit inside the locomotive.

***Nowhere near as small as the TCS M1 though - and the M1 has full adjustability on all CV's, higher power motor drive and better function control - plus a better warranty!

Richard

 

[Richard Johnson]

QUOTE (poliss @ 15 May 2008, 00:05) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>It's also over twice the price. I can buy Hornby decoders for £8.25 post free. It would cost me at least an extra £153.00 to buy TCS M1 decoders for my fleet. Not all of us can afford it, especially when wives object to spending any money at all on the hobby.

***As long as you are happy with it then thats just fine... Although I must admit that I really don't consider the TCS decoders as expensive. I'd have to say I've fitted very, very many N scale loco's and the M1 often gives a much better final result, as best running for N scale (especially British N scale) can be hard to achieve and really does need help very often.

I should add too that as I've lobbied strongly and worked on the whole compliance with DCC standards thing without letup for a couple of years now, I'm really very, very pleased to see Hornby go from publicly denying and considering the NMRA standards irrelevant to realising their importance and embracing them, and I sincerely hope that this very positive trend continues, as it'll be good for the hobby as a whole to remove the problems of the incompatibility of their earlier efforts...

It'll be nice to see Hornby continue to evolve positively with their DCC efforts.

Kind regards

Richard