07-08-2010, 08:20 PM
Well, not knowing how to identify a positive or a negative electron if they stood next to each other in front of me, can you step that power down? Or should I try to sell it (not knowing what it's worth - no box but looks brand new - I take care of my belongings!) on EBay?
Might this lump be a power source for A DCC system? I mean, I do know enough not to attach this directly to the raails ... it's not like I didn't (with some help) get a couple of DC cab-type layouts operating in my varied past!
At one point in the early '80's, The Prototype Circuit Board Shop at Sperry Corp was using double sided PC Board scraps to cook me up baords for some hand held throttles that I used the copy camera in the shop to shoot the artwork from a page in Model Railroader and the the guys would burn me as many of those little boards as I wanted. I built four of them.
But when it comes to all this power supply stuff and "putting components together" rather than purchasing an entire "turn-key" systen that I just have to hook up wires ... I leave that stuff to guys like Kevin and Gary ... fellas who do this electrical shananigans all the time!
Might this lump be a power source for A DCC system? I mean, I do know enough not to attach this directly to the raails ... it's not like I didn't (with some help) get a couple of DC cab-type layouts operating in my varied past!
At one point in the early '80's, The Prototype Circuit Board Shop at Sperry Corp was using double sided PC Board scraps to cook me up baords for some hand held throttles that I used the copy camera in the shop to shoot the artwork from a page in Model Railroader and the the guys would burn me as many of those little boards as I wanted. I built four of them.
But when it comes to all this power supply stuff and "putting components together" rather than purchasing an entire "turn-key" systen that I just have to hook up wires ... I leave that stuff to guys like Kevin and Gary ... fellas who do this electrical shananigans all the time!
biL
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln