We non-Japanese fans of Japanese trains are well aware of the DC versus DCC debate now occurring in Japan. We know that anything from Tomix is extremely difficult to make DCC for we know that they are advocating their TNOS hardware, which is something some in America & beyond are experimenting with due to how it handles automation. While with Kato the ease of making them DCC is age dependent, with the oldest Kato mechanisms not being compatible with Kato or third-party DCC decoders, while the more recently designed Kato mechanisms have some degree of DCC compatibility. DCC sound is also something getting mixed reception with N-scale trains, some people are liking Kato's SOUNDBOX + Bluetooth approach as it's easier to set up for N-scale use. Though I'm starting to see N-scale locomotives with in-built speakers & DCC sound decoders, these locomotives are a lot larger than the typical JR/JNR/JRF diesel/electric locomotive.
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@@rod.h8064 Thank you for your comment. I was impressed with your knowledge of the conversion of Japanese-style vehicles to DCC. Some of KATO's 1/80・16.5mm vehicles have NEM652 8-pin sockets, but in the case of trains and railcars, DCC control of lights is not possible. I basically wire directly to the motor etc. without using NEM652, not only for TOMIX but also for KATO vehicles. The biggest problem with Japanese 1/80・16.5mm vehicles is that there is no space for installing decoders and speakers. I've converted European models such as PIKO into DCC, but I'm envious of American and European models that already have space for rigging.
@@arabiki234 True, we (the rest of the world) tend to focus only on the end cabs and motor cars, which Kato makes decoders for, and less on the fact that every passenger carriage that we fit with interior light units, also needs to be fitted with DCC decoders. Something that I don't believe that DCC can handle very well. I'm aware of HO-scale lighted passenger carriages being run off one decoder and wired together like certain N-scale Shinkansen or are run off an onboard power source. We've heard of issues caused by too much current melting bogies with DCC, but we've also heard of the same thing occurring with noisy and greater than twelve-volt DC. Tomix Constant Lighting gets treated as a dark art, I own rolling stock that has that feature, but I don't have a controller that supports it, only TCS that I use for Tomix signals.
Oh my.... Thanks, KZbin algorithm for bringing me this! Though the automatic English subs are inconsistent. So his first kit build was of the JNR equivalent of a Victorian Railways Fast Parcel Service EMU? Some of that 1970 Tomix set is still being produced now. Think only Greenmax offer the 1-car Kuha-103 currently. That Hankyu set, I've only ever seen as a decal set to apply to plain Hankyu carriages. I think in three years Kato might do a sixtieth-anniversary C50. Two pieces of that Tomix embankment doesn't take up much space. Twelve embankment pieces with a bridge not so much when in a storage crate, but over a meter when set up.