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Slave decoder

A special type of decoder that is intended to increase the power available from one conventional locomotive decoder.  Slave decoders are quite inexpensive and are very useful in the larger scales.  The decoders do not interpret digital packets from the command station, but simply repeat the output of a conventional decoder with additional power to the device being controlled.