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| DCC Components
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Accessory Decoder, Auto Reverse, Command station, Computer Interface, Consists, DCC Booster, DCC Ready, Decoder, Digital packet, How DCC works, Multifunction Decoder, Power supply, Speed steps, Throttle, XPressNet
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| General
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Address Partitioning, Ammeter, Analog Control of Model Railroads, Bus, Cab, Can Motor, Command Control, Coreless Motor, DCC, DCC in a Box, DMM, Distributed Power, Frog Juicer, Jump Port, LCC, Layout Command Control, Locomotive, MU consisting, Motor, OEM, Phase, Power Bus, Programming Track, Pulse Width Modulation, Rail Size, Serial User System Interface - SUSI, Slots, Standard Dimensions, Turnout Motors, Turnouts with Digital Command Control, Voltage Drop, Zero Stretching
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| Mobile decoder
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Analog Conversion, Back EMF, Decoder Connection Method, Decoder-Assisted Consisting, Digitrax Transponding, Ditch Lights, Dither, Energy Storage, FX Lighting, Functions, High-Frequency Decoders, Kick Start, Lighting Effects, Loco Momentum, Locomotive Interface, NMRA Connector, NMRA DCC Plug for Multifunction Decoders, Power Conversion, Programming Lock, Programming Modes, Quartering, Silent Drive, Snood, Speed Table, USP, XOR
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Primary DCC Components
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Belief that electronic devices contain 'magic smoke' that escapes when the device is overloaded (ie burned out).
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When an electronic device (LED, transistor, computer chip, or DCC decoder) is electrically overloaded you sometimes get a whiff of something burning-- and you might actually see a puff of smoke rising from the remains of the device. There is a sentiment in the world of electronics that this is "Magic" smoke. It is sealed into the electronic device at its manufacture, and "letting the magic smoke out" is a way of saying that the device has been electrically destroyed.