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How to Find and Select a Power Supply for your Accessories
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Hey Mike thanks for the video on the wall Power supply he can explain it any better I put is one of my favorites thanks again you're a good customer Skip from New York
Do you have a video on basic wiring of Kato track for DC? I find all kinds of DCC stuff but very little on DC.
your video on phone chargers for power is great,Tom smith
Great tip Mike. Another great power source is a computer power supply. Will gibe you 12 and 5v power well beyond needs of layout.
Mike! I recently just bought a lot of N scale tracks. I got a box of them cheap and since then I have wanted to start getting more into the hobby. I Have since bought a power pack and cars and a few locomotives. My problem being is that I'm not sure if I can hook up the atlas track I have (Atlas 2501, 2510 and so on – not ez track) to the bachmann power supply I now have. Are they compatible and if so how do I go about hooking them up? I have the red cord that plugs into the speed controller and going to the track but I don't have a piece of track that it would plug into like in most videos I have watched. Do I have to order a new rerailer? I don't have the rerailer that has the plug for the red wire. The power hook ups that came with the lot I bought are an older wire in style. I'm not sure where to go from here and how to get more information on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you!
Thanks for the heads up re the wall warts. As a qualified electrician I would advise, as you did, that if you use these to power up LED's and other items on the layout to calculate the current draw so as to not overload the wall wart (Transformer). Once they become overloaded ie use more Milliamps than its rating, it can overheat. Anything electrical that overheats is a potential fire hazard. The easiest way too calculate load is to use a multimeter in series to read the actual load or to multiply the Known load of a single device and multiply by the number of devices to be used.To be honest the advice given when taken with practical precautions is indeed good advice and if used safely then these wall marts are a cheap source of DC for your layout. Good Video, enjoyed it and subscribed.
THANK YOU…for sharing.
Gathering all my power supplies yo to see what I have. being an ex Computer man I have also some computer power supplies too. Have to check them out though.
While I was watching your Video, I rummaged through the bottom draw of my desk and found 3 old phone chargers giving 5 volts and one at 12 volts. I know I have a few more tucked away in my shed somewhere. Thank you for the tip. You made my day and my wallets day.Barry. Devon. UK
Hi Mike, watching your video has help me in the past on my layout, we used ac on points know doubt can be used for other things too. Keep the video coming. Roy North Somerset UK
Well, just to let you know , this is the 2nd video that I have watched and I was able to apply these principles to my new layout with success. The first video that I was able to successfully grasp the information was the one about the switch from DCC to DC on the same layout, and the Power Cab Auto Switcher for the NCE system to switch to programming track from the main when programming DCC ready engines. Someone just gained a new subscriber! Looking forward to learning more as I expand on my newly formed HO DCC layout!
Thanks Mike
can anyone tell me why a diesel engine I bought works perfect on one layout and grinds on my big layout and takes more power to move. it sounds like it's dragging. n scale.
Can you show us some examples like how to hook them up? I'm new at this. I want to somehow run muti-color buss wires for a variety of accessories. This would be a fantastic way to power those buss lines.. but how? Thanks a million – love your channel!
Okay I have a question I have a LGB black widow and I just got a beautiful train bridge that hooks up to a power transformer to run the train while it’s stationary so I can display the train but the bridge was was built for a big boy, so how can I put the engine on the Dyno or free wheel part of the bridge and still run power to the engine? If this makes since? I don’t know if there’s a way to hook up wire to the connectors of the engine and also the bridge already has wires built into it but like I say it was made for a big boy and not my black widow. Love your videos and they help out even if someone like me is an avid model railroader except this I’ve never dealt with but wanted to display my first ever train my grandfather gave me :). Help would be appreciated.
i made a box that you can plug a 19V laptop power pack and it has a series of dimmer switches and toggle. so i can turn off and on lights and dim them or over power them. i also hooked up a strobe flash. plan is to rig it inside the "mining cave" and flash it to simulate dynamite.