Hardware Support: DCC Specialties Products

http://www.dccspecialties.com/ DCC Specialties makes ( made? ) several powerful controllers for model railroads. Their two switch motor controllers are called the http://www.dccspecialties.com/products/hare-ng.htm Hare and http://www.dccspecialties.com/products/wabbit_review.htm Wabbit. They also make an intelligent block detector called the http://www.dccspecialties.com/products/bwatcher.htm Block Watcher, and the powerful http://www.dccspecialties.com/products/powershield_x.htm PSX and http://www.dccspecialties.com/products/powershield_x.htm PSX-AR power controllers.

These can do a lot of things, but it can require some work to configure them.

Documentation

Website links inaccessible as of 2022/12/29

Third Party info

Brett Scott and Denny Whitaker have written JMRI scripts to assist with programming these, and provided a nice writeup of how to use them. The writeup also covers how they document their layout, and discusses the pros and cons of several ways of connecting the Hare and Wabbit.

You can download their scripts from the JMRI website, and it also available in the sample scripts directory in the JMRI downloads.