Super 4 Track to DCC

[thewurzel]

Hi 

Im new to model railways in a way. I used to play with my dads set in the 70's /80's. 

I now have inherited his set. I have a lot of super 4 track and a very small amount of seris 6 track, small loop with sideing that came with the HST set in the late 70's or early 80's 

I would like to use the super 4 as i have much more of it and I also have a a turntable that goes with it 

I am going to get this up and running. building a 8'x 4' layout.  I am going to clean and rebuild motors as not much seams to work right now as they have not been used in 30 years.

I would like to convert it to a DCC system. Will the older Super 4 track be ok for running DCC?

Thanks and any input would be aperciated.

Julian

 

[jane1707819582]

hello julian 

the track will be fine working on dcc , you will have to convert your loco's to dcc by fitting a decoder to each loco .i think the best thing you can do is get all your loco's running as near perfect as possible , any faults they have on dc will be amplified on dcc.

once you have done that you will need to know the stall current of the loco's . ie how much current is taken by each loco in a stall

this will dictate the size of decoder each loco will need ,older kit tends to use more current .

[trainlover23]

 Whilst it will work it may not work very well due the fact that the track is steel and will get dirty very quickly

[thewurzel]

 Whilst it will work it may not work very well due the fact that the track is steel and will get dirty very quickly

so what is the best way to keep the older track clean?