PS3 and DCS

Hi Phil,

Welcome back!

Any PS3 engine should load into a 3.10 remote and TIU without trouble.  In some cases you might be missing a softkey feature or two that have been added since 3.10, but all the usual stuff will be there.

Do get your upgrade taken care of ASAP.  There are a lot of improvements that have been made since 3.10.

Hope you cleaned your tracks!

Welcome back.

Rod

Welcome back.

The kids do make it more fun.

Set up a gondola train and a crane and they are busy for the duration.

Or a loading ramp and a set of corrals with animals in it, that works too.

Also scale is not noticed by kids, as long as it will fit in the car, it will get loaded, hauled and unloaded.

Phil,

   Welcome back, I agree, get a Crane Car & logs to load in a Gondola Car, and some farm animals to play with, the kids will play for hours.

Hope all is well in your world.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks Guys, Didn't think of the crane car or the corral...great idea...I do have Barry's book and I'm going to start reading up on how-to upgrade DCS

Also get a few gondolas out and let her load and unload whatever other little toys she wants!!  Makes the trains seen more accessible if she can incorporate her other goodies.  Welcome back to the fun.

You should update so you have the latest stuff. Some of the additional features of 4.2 over what you have are things like quick set speed where you can set the speed using the number pad to select speed and not scroll. Or brake and stay where you can slow, or speed up and remain at the speed you stopped on, rather than reverting back to the original speed. There's some more too and totally worth it.

I especially like the quickset speed. especially if you have a thumbwheel that goes nuts on you!

If you are going to run PS/3 engines you should definitely upgrade your TIU and remote to 4.20. There are PS/3 features that won't work with 4.10. My first PS/3 unit was an electric, and I could not get manual control of the pantographs until I upgraded to 4.20. This is contrary to what it says in the manual. The same feature was included in a lot of PS/2 electrics, so I'm kind of surprised that the PS/3 version wouldn't work without an upgrade.  Upgrading it yourself isn't all that hard (assuming you have Windows, the software won't work with a Mac), or most dealers will do it for free if you are a regular customer or if you bought the unit from them. 

the software won't work with a Mac

Not so.

It works just fine on an Intel Mac under Boot amp, Parallels or VMFusion.

Barry,

   Please explain what you mean that it will work with Mac under boot amp, are you talking about doing the upgrades, to the TIU or something with a P3 engine.  You guys definitely lost me.

PCRR/Dave

Dave,

All modern (Intel chipset) Macs can run Windows in one of two ways.

Using the included Boot Camp software, the Mac can boot directly into Windows.

Alternatively, one can run a Windows environment as a Mac application from the Desktop using either Parallels or VMFusion.

You would need a USB to Serial cable, just like with any modern PC.

Barry,

   Thank you sir very much, so we are actually talking both TIU & engine up grades, via the computer.

PCRR/Dave

Dave,

so we are actually talking both TIU & engine up grades, via the computer

Yes, that's correct.

Barry,

   Thank you I appreciate the knowledge.

PCRR/Dave