Afternoon all,

While waiting for a ballasting session to dry properly i`ve been looking at converting a Bachman loco (The Ranger ) to DCC..As this has quite a heav chassis i`m wondering on which decoder to try and fit.

At the moment i`ve used Hornbys R8249 decoders in most of my other locos but i`m not sure, with my limited dcc knowledge, whether this would be suitable.

My layout is a simple end to end mpd favouring good slow running so there is not going to be any heavy loads being pulled.

I also use the basic Select controller which i know is not everyones choice but it was passed on to me as a gift and got me started in DCC.

Any suggestions as to improving decoder choice or controller would be most helpful.

Many thanks.

Jim.