How Long Can a DCS Recording Session Be?

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90 minutes or 500 button presses.  BTW Adobe reader has a search feature so you do not even have to look in the index.  Great feature use it all time.

Thank you, sir for the answer and advise on the search feature.

Wow...that's a lot of recording time and button presses.

I record from my iPod to the TIU using the appropriate cable and remote...I have a 2:10 minute recorded song. No button pushes once the sound stops during recording, just be patient it will continue to record without any "button pushes." And that's over120 seconds! When the recording is over, save it, play it back (through any operating DCS train, regardless of the one used for the recording).

Hi SD60M,

The limits on the DCS record/playback feature are fairly generous, but it's easier to bump up against the 500 press limit than you might think.  Each speed command counts as "press."  If you scroll up slowly and hit every speed step you will use up 10% of all the "presses" getting a parked train to 50 smph.  If you ever do run up against the limit you can save a LOT of presses by using the Quickset Speed feature and a high momentum setting (1 smph/sec).