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Making Your Own DCC Components
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DCC is based on a set of digital protocols requiring intelligent decoders. This does not, however, mean that you cannot aspire to develop and/or build your own electronics to interface to it. At the simple end of the scale, DCC makes it easy to acquire a source of DC at any point within the system. A full- or half- wave rectifier may be used to convert the DCC track signal to DC - for example, for carriage lighting. This signal is always present during normal operation and does not disappear when, for example, a train stops. It is ultimately possible to design your own components of a DCC system. This requires skills in digital and analogue design and software design for microcontrollers. Review of the information available above may offer a starting point. A good source for information about DIY DCC is available here. That link is probably more up-to-date than this page! We are aware that some of the links below don't work, and we are trying to establish if new links exist (late November 2004).
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