Electric RC explained a little (Deltang / RC Trains etc setups)
If you use a standard stick radio or trigger radio with forward and reverse all on one stick or trigger and your loco is under 18V and pulls less than 3A then this is definitely for you (most locos I have seen pull much less than 3A)
Firstly and most importantly I do not work for any RC company and am not associated with any RC supplier, though my personal preference is RC Trains, but that is Deltang equipment, the same as Yatton and a number of others that use their base components. I am not bigging up one particular company, simply trying to pass on my personal findings. (RC Trains and other suppliers will provide a ready made TX with better boxes and graphics and not just in kit form like the Deltang one which is just a black box with unmarked dials and switches)
If you upgrade a standard system to a Deltang "type" transmitter with an RX65b and use "Low OFF" this gives MUCH greater control over the speed of your loco, particularly at slower speeds, I can not stress how much this will totally change the control of any electric loco currently on a stick or trigger RC system or for that matter the same setup but set to "Centre Off".
Also note these systems also come with "Selecta" enabled which allows for running of 12 concurrent loco's from one TX! (you can of course just use one TX to save carrying a number of TX's about with you and run them independently) They can also provide other channels for built in light direction control, sound buttons and inertia control (auto control over how fast or slow the train is able to pull away or stop) but I am not here to mention all their built in features as it would take way too long as their are many many features, please just go and look. But the important feature is explain I hope, below.Long winded explanation below and uses approx numbers based on my own personal findings of my own RC systems, nothing technical, just approximate!
(Low OFF, this means that speed and control is combined over two channels removes the centre off approach of most RC systems. I will attempt to explain it for those that might not know. A standard RC system [not all] uses just one channel for a electric loco to give forward and reverse with the off (stop) point in the middle, usually sprung loaded on stick type systems. This means that half your movement is for forward and half is for reverse so you are already down to 50% movement each way. You actually also lose another 15% (approx) off the very top and very bottom at each end due to ESC's not being all that linear in effect of a loco at top speed as you dont need most of that anyway and you also lose around 10% (approx) around the middle each way before the loco actually starts to move. This means it is effectively giving you around 25% of real usable movement each way on the stick. The Deltang / RC Trains etc type I mention above uses one channel for speed and one channel for direction, just like a steam engine with a regulator and a forward reverse lever. So, you move one switch or dial one way for forward motion, then the other channel goes on a large rotary dial from 0 - 100 with large movement giving much finer control, of course there is no middle off point so you get move like an effective 70% control from your 100% movement each direction, instead of the approx 25% effective movement on a standard system. The difference is immense when controlling a loco, it really is!)
