TMCC minimal system question

You have it covered, time to sell the CW-80.

You have it right.

What you lose is the ability to use the remote and roam around when conventional.  You need to be near the transformer to control the conventional trains' speed.

(Assuming I read you post correctly and you said you have a ZW-C which lets you control the handles with the remote like 4 TMCC powermasters)

-Dave

How does he lose that capability.  He can use the remote and walk around controlling the ZW-C.

LOL, I did sell 2 cw-80s and a cw-30. The one guy wanted them for lighting. Don

I probably mistook his post for suggesting he was thinking of getting rid of the ZW-C.   (the phrasing of "the only thing i need it for..." probably skewed my interpretation)

My bad for reading too fast (though I'm not sure what the question was if not elimination of the ZW-C).

-Dave

Dave, I "think" he was suggesting getting rid of the CW-80, at least that's how I read it.

according to MR the cw puts out the cut wave and ran the sd70 ace smoke unit great at 15 volts and the 1033 barely put out any smoke at 15 volts.  Why did the change the legacy smoke units, I think the one in my fef is fantastic and will equal a mth smoke unit where the legacy engines will not get anywhere near mth.  bummer.  if it don't need fixing don't fix it.

Hopefully Don can clarify so we actually answer his question.

Since you can't control conventional trains with a CAB-1 using a CW-80, I guessed that the opening cw-c was a typo.

-Dave

You can use the inner handles on the ZW-C and not have to set the track power each time, they'll come up at the position of the handles.  The outer handles start at zero under command.

Yep; i knew about the inner handles. I use one for my lights and the other to run a o31 track with a conventional loco.

   I set it up that way because I had all conventional. I may need to rethink it. I can also set the zw-c  to tr0 and all handles will work but I think i loose the horn on the cab1 for conventional if I do that.