Had an email from DCC Concepts which has a video link to their new 'Super High-Power Stay Alive' and a quick demo of installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBcZmlLS3vw Impressive to say the least... Cheers, Gary.
It's very good but if you needed to do an emergency stop and cut the power to the track, would it keep going? Ed
yes Ed, which is the problem with big capacitors especially if you had a lift out section for access to your layout. If you need that much stay-alive for bad track-work then I think the track-work needs looking at. Kim
Don't want another Robinson J11 episode Battery power and Wifi/remote control DCC has been mentioned a bit recently on various forums. Still in it's infancy I think and expensive at the moment, but maybe the future. Ed
ed wrote: be interesting to see what happens if the track is short circuited with a loco running under capacitor power only.
I saw that but that was an on/off short circuit, just wondering how it would go with a longer short across the tracks ? The DCC system should shut down but without knowing the Stay Alive connections ( and searching the Net shows different methods, some with the stay alive across the track power wires so they should drain out quickly with a longer short circuit and I think the video, has it connected further into the decoder circuit so a track short should not give grief.
