DCC Concepts Super Panel

[Evenescent]

Some of you with NCE DCC systems might have used NCE's Mini Panel, which is a great bit of eqt for automation, layout control and route setting etc.. A large proportion of DCC Concepts products can easily be used with NCE systems, they have recently produced a new product called a Super Panel, which can only be used with NCE DCC Systems. The Super Panel is as you might expect similar to NCE's own Mini Panel, but is much, much more capable. The first thing that I noticed after unpacking is that each of the 50 odd terminals can do 2 actions compared to the Mini Panels 1 per terminal (30 terminals). This means that simple on-off switches are used, for instance to control a simple point left and right directions can used from 1 terminal, whereas the Mini Panel would have to use 2 terminals to do the same. The Mini panel can do sequences of 4 contiguous actions per terminal (no good for point control though), whereas the Super Panel can do 20 actions per terminal either as toggle switch closed or open, so that'd be 20 points that could be simultaneously controlled from one terminal and without using macros either.

I mentioned automation in a general sense, in particular the Super Panel is capable of locomotive automation too. So actions such as back and forth shuttles, with slowing, then stopping are possible as well as lights and sounds etc.

Some of these actions are possible with a Mini Panel too, but to match a single Super Panel multiples of Mini Panels would have to be used.

Cheers,

Eve

Edited July 21 by Evenescent