Wiring up battery DCC RC system using ESU V3.5 decoder, Phoenix 2K2 (DCC compatible) sound card and Revolution DCC receiver

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Hi All
I am not sure if this should be in the Battery or the DCC forum so here goes.... Mods can you deem which one it should be in.....

It is becoming a pain to clean my track partially due to where it runs as well as using live steam.
I am changing as many locos as I can to Battery DCC RC control.
I have many ESU XL V3.5 DCC decoders and Phoenix cards. Although the ESU cards are motive and sound, I do want to use the Phoenix 2K2 sound boards, that I have, for some of the locos as the sounds are even better than in ESU's sound library.

I have used the DC version of the Crest/Precision-Electronics Train Engineer Revolution RC system and found it great to use. So their Revolution DCC RC system seems to be the way to go for me.

So I was wondering if any one had done a lash up battery system using the components mentioned (ESU DCC decoder, Phoenix 2K2 sound board and the Revolution DCC RC receiver).
Are there any wiring issues that I should watch out for eg like the 2K2 ground trigger wire and DCC decoder ground must not be connected etc.

The makes of my locos are Aristocraft diesels, Bachmann geared locos (Shay Climax and Heisler) 4-6-0 (latest two versions of Annies) and a C19, USA Trains diesels.

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Ears pricked on this, interesting topic.. I recently ventured into DCC for my H0m Bemo + Hobby train stuff and went down the DCC++EX Arduino board (purchased pre configured from chesterfield models pre build for £60 as could not buy the components myself cheaper) and thought how useful dcc would be as standalone RC and wondered if you could create "several" dcc RC systems as a cheaper alternative. bet the revolution is not cheap.
 
I have done a test lash up if the Crest DCC System. Somewhere in here I reviewed the DCC system even showing how I wired it up. But blowed if I can find it now…..
 
dunnyrail said:
I have done a test lash up if the Crest DCC System. Somewhere in here I reviewed the DCC system even showing how I wired it up. But blowed if I can find it now…..
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Hi Dunny
I saw it and pulled it down. Very informative. I was just hoping that someone had tried the two components together; ( ESU XL sound decoder (or just a motor DCC decoder) and the Phoenix 2K2 sound board.
Just checking that if the decoder is DCC, the sound board is DCC and the Revolution receiver is DCC, then they will all work fine together and the sound can be easily controlled.
 
beavercreek said:
Hi Dunny
I saw it and pulled it down. Very informative. I was just hoping that someone had tried the two components together; ( ESU XL sound decoder (or just a motor DCC decoder) and the Phoenix 2K2 sound board.
Just checking that if the decoder is DCC, the sound board is DCC and the Revolution receiver is DCC, then they will all work fine together and the sound can be easily controlled.
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Glad you managed to find my post, I think I did it with an LGB box sound unit which of course is DCC. So in theory your all DCC setup should work fine. Not sure tgat it will be trashabke on a test, perhaps if you do a test with the loco decoder hard wired via terminal strip and one wire of sound unit, just touching the sound unit to a wired in lash up so that you can take it off if fizing occures will give you peace of mind.
 
beavercreek said:
Hi Dunny
I saw it and pulled it down. Very informative. I was just hoping that someone had tried the two components together; ( ESU XL sound decoder (or just a motor DCC decoder) and the Phoenix 2K2 sound board.
Just checking that if the decoder is DCC, the sound board is DCC and the Revolution receiver is DCC, then they will all work fine together and the sound can be easily controlled.
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Could you post the link?
TNX!
 
dunnyrail said:
Well done blowed if I could find it, try to put all my links in a Notes file on my ioad. My SQL searching was, is and always has been rubbish.
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Well, 'twas easy, grabbed your phrase test ... Crest DCC System and earlier than today (as there is a date spec offered) and, presto!

I would want to come back to the contents of that 9 Feb 2016 of yours. But it'd be a discussion for the faint-hearted :-) Might bring my no-idea-of-electroNIX to the fore.

First of all, ...battery replaces track power, so how exactly to cut track power? But that belongs into its own thread. (I'll be back to edit the link - here.)
 
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