DCC Installation Difficulty Levels
Considering doing a DCC or DCC Sound Installation?
Before you start, decide what level of difficulty the installation will be with your level of knowledge and experience.
By trying to save a few dollars, some installs are best left to an experienced installer, as the cost if your installation goes wrong could really hurt your wallet.
DCC Solutions has been doing DCC installations since 2011, and over the years have built up the knowledge and experience to tackle even the most difficult installation.
Here is a list of the levels of difficultly. See what your level is from 1-10.
1-2 (Trivial/Very Easy): Tasks requiring minimal effort, thought, or skill. Often immediately accessible to everyone to complete a simple decoder plug-in, standard non-sound DCC Installation.
3-4 (Easy/Beginner): Requires some thought or basic skills. May take a few attempts to get right, but generally, they can be a straightforward DCC Installation.
5-6 (Moderate/Balanced): Moving into sound installations at this level that can be the “tipping point.”
These installations are not simple, requiring a higher skill level, requiring more thought involved in the process to complete a DCC Sound Installation. Knowledge on installing a speaker and soldering skills is typically required.
7-8 (Hard/Challenging): You may have completed a sound install previously and thought “it's not that hard”.
You are now faced with one that appears to be not so easy. At this level, it requires significant knowledge, skill, effort, and problem-solving. These may be frustrating installations, requiring persistence with an increased amount of work to complete a DCC Sound Installation. Possibly, a hardwired installation requiring a loco to be rewired needing advanced soldering skills.
9 (Very Hard/Intense): Serious business to complete a sound installation. Not for everyone; generally for DCC experts with years of experience and greater knowledge on how to make everything fit inside a model to achieve a DCC Sound Installation that is still technically achievable.
10 (Impossible/Extreme): Near-impossible, definitely for a DCC expert who is highly specialised, technically minded that will make use of all their knowledge and experience to be able to do a nearly impossible-to-complete DCC Sound Installations.