Translated Description from PIKO: Novelty 2024: The BR 193 “Vectron†in the design of DB Italia Epoch VI. With the Vectron, PIKO delivers a high-precision model that has numerous extras based on a solid die-cast zinc frame and features proven PIKO standards. The tried and tested PIKO motor with two large flywheels ensures excellent running properties. The tractive force of the locomotive, which is powered by all four axles, is increased by two traction tires that sit diagonally to one another on the internal axles of both bogies. The headlights and tail lamps are illuminated via LEDs, whose red or white changes with the direction of travel. The externally elegant appearance of this model includes an exactly reproduced technical roof landscape and carefully detailed bogies with prototypical wheel disc profiles. To control the digital and sound functions, the model comes with a PSD XP sound decoder with the largest possible loudspeaker. The model bears the “fits mfx†quality mark. In order to make digital decoders reliably usable for all users of the current Marklin digital centers, a new quality mark fits mfx was introduced together with Marklin and other manufacturers. This can only be used by digital decoders that have undergone a special mfx test and have passed it completely. These decoders and the locomotives in which they are installed carry the fits mfx quality mark, which certifies the unrestricted mfx functionality. This means that PIKO products with the “fits mfx†logo now fully support the diverse functions of mfx.
