We had some issues with the UWT-50 injection molding that took a while to figure out. The injection molder still isn't finished, but hopefully they'll be finished soon.

I'll have an update this weekend about the TCS UWT-50 status (still having injection molding issues). But now I'd like to talk about the use of thumb switches. But, before we get into this, I'd like to note that I'm a volunteer on the project--although they do feed us when we visit TCS :-).

The UWT-50 development team had a debate recently about encoders vs potentiometers. My favorite has always been the potentiometer, and I didn't really care if we had an encoder version or not. But I know there are people who would prefer the encoder version. So here is my question. What advantages do you see with the encoder version over the potentiometer version?

They're here! We finished testing of the final version of the software, and shipping will start next week.

We lost a month for no good reason (on our part). Here is an update on the status of the injection molds for the TCS throttles. The bottom line is that they went dark for a month, so our chances of shipping before Christmas are not very high. Grrrr. Details are in the video.

Hi, it's been a long time since I posted about the TCS throttle. We've been working on getting the throttle ready for release this fall. I've been working on the consisting feature. For the first release, our plan is to have consisting be in-throttle consisting, like the consisting that you get with Engine Driver or the WiThrottle app. In other words, the consist exists in the throttle only. This will allow the consisting to work the same way with any command station. We plan to look at CV19 consisting and JMRI consisting later.