Track Power
Hi.
Because I still have to wait until July, before I get my first steam set, I do have a technical question about the system.
According to what I understand about it, is the maximum voltage 17V DC.
But does it work the same way as a DCC system?
Where you have a constant power on the track, and an intern DCC chip decoder (in this case not programmable) in the locomotive, that acts a a power controller, controlled with frequentie pulses over the track.
Or Is the power over the track variable?
I want to know this to for the power needed to make light in coaches.
Cheers,
Danny
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Like I sad, I got a DC to DC reducer.
This piece of electronics is great to do this job.
It can handel a constand changing input power variation from 0 to 40 V, and turns out a constand output as you program it.
Of course the minute the input drops under the output voltage, the output drop with it.
You can't give more than you put in, that's obvious.
What perhaps would be interesting, is what Nick proposed, to build in a anti flicker unit.
This is actualy no more than a condencator that gives of a smooth electricity relaese, and eliminates the flicker effect.
Time to go to the test bench....