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Re: Circuit Breakers


 

Oldngrey,

Just about anything will be a lot more expensive than an 8 amp Digitrax system. So it really depends on what features are important to you. RailCom could add a lot to automating your layout. You'll also have to figure out how much you really need all six power districts. Generally, more power districts are better, but it could cost a lot with individual boosters for each power district.

Another option would be to add a RailCom cutout device and keep the DCS240 either as the command station or a booster. I believe the way Digitrax creates the DCC signal, there aren't enough preamble bits to do full RailCom, but you could get locomotive IDs.

Alex

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 6:34?PM Oldngrey <steve_donald_@...> wrote:
Alex,
*sigh* you are right. I was too hasty in comparing the PSXX to a 3 Amp booster in terms of price. The PSXX-3's I have cost around the same price as a single YD7403. So 3 times as much per protected area.

At the moment I have a DCS240 with an 8 Amp power supply feeding the lower level and that is divided into 6 circuit breaker zones using a couple of PSXX-3's.
I've been buying or going on wait lists to covert to the YaMoRC / Digikeijs universe and trying to figure out what gets removed or replaced on the layout. That's why I was asking about circuit breakers. It's a fairly steep price to pay to use start using Railcom but that's my decision - cost being secondary to functionality and fun. Do I need Railcom? Of course not, but do I want it? Yes :)

I don't use Keep Alives or PowerPacks so that's not a factor in my case. It was the main reason the PSX was replaced by the PSXX if I read the blogs correctly.

What I am seeing here though is an answer to my initial question. It has become a discussion about the number of boosters needed to do the job. However, I do intend to have a lot of trains running at one time with iTrain. My UWT-100 will keep me busy running the 'local', switchers and manifests while the unit trains keep the mainlines busy. A visitor can use a phone or my DT602d. When product from YaMoRC becomes available I believe I will be completing the transition without PSXXs or EB-1s. I will try to limit my use of boosters, but I will be using them to isolate areas of the layout irrespective of how many Amps are needed.



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Alexander Wood

Hartford-New Haven, CT

Modeling the modern era freelanced G&W Connecticut Northern in HO

Digikeijs DR5000 - JMRI - ProtoThrottle - TCS UWT-100 - TCS UWT-50p - Digitrax Simplex

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