[neil_s_wood]

It sounds like this is the only budget system to give the MultiMouse a run for it's money. As it's made by ESU it should be very good. It looks like this may be the best budget system available. I'd be interested to know if the wireless part is compatible with the Ecos as ESU wireless controller isn't cheap?

QUOTE Maybe I should switch to XpressNet? Go on David treat yourself. You know you want one

You'll still be able to use your existing equipment via the Ecossniffer.

 

[neil_s_wood]

QUOTE ZTC is not available in Australia, but I detect a certain cynicism of their products on this site - what are the reasons behind that? Talking of high prices, I cannot see how they can remain in business given their small distribution network Just to put it into perspective the ZTC system is about the same cost as an ESU Ecos. Look at the difference in design and specs. You'd be mad buying the ZTC system.

QUOTE Given the technical and pricing leaps being announced by Bachmann and Hornby around the mid range systems, perhaps we will all be blown away by Lenz and others at the Toy Fair - at the end of the day, if Lenz and Ecos develop systems for other competitors, it is hard to believe they wil give them a competitie advantage. It could be that Lenz and ESU don't have the production facilities for mass marketing a budget system and thats why they sell their budget offerings to Bachmann and Roco. With their full spec'ed systems there isn't such a big market and they can handle distribution themselves.

There does seem to be a similarity between the design of the Maerklin /Trix budget system and the Dynamis. The Maerklin /Trix system would have been designed by ESU too. I wonder how much they have in common.

The Trix one here is also a handheld one like the Dynamis. The Dynamis has some better specs like more functions. I reckon the Dynamis could well be an improved version of the Trix systems one.

There we go managed to get a bit more speculation in.

 

[neil_s_wood]

Do we know the power output for the Dynamis yet? I see a lot of similarities with this Trix system which came out early last year which also involved ESU. Same number of max loco addresses, name addresses and the games console format is identical too. The Dynamis seems to be an more expensive upgraded version of the same format. The Ecos is a very different item from these handheld systems. If the Dynamis is succesful maybe Bachmann will go for a central station item like the Ecos which has all the features that the Ecos has.

The Trix Central Station looks like the Ecos too and has many similar features. ESU must be creating systems for quite a few train manufacturers as well as making their decoders. I wonder if they will, or have, replaced Lenz as the DCC bench mark? The Dynamis might make a good wireless walk around controller for the Ecos.