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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by sschaer[/i] [br]howdy folks.... been a while since i added another work report. been busy with a lot of different things such as garden work , holidays and many honey-dos. a few weeks ago my old aristo train engineer broke down causing a service disruption of my garden railroad. running multiple engines require quite a few amps of power. 4 usa-trains sd40-2 with no load can pull 12 amps easily. a digitrax 8amp booster was not able to power two of them. bummer. i finally decided to go dcc and bought a mzion 30z command station/booster. this unit delivers a whopping 25 amps plus 5 amps on a programming track. currently none of my locomotives have a decoder installed. running them in analog mode on a dcc system works fine but might have negative impacts on the motors. decoders are ordered but not yet here. anyways, i played around with this new system for a while. [url]https://youtu.be/Dcw9z1bwJXI[/url] during the last few weeks i didn't do too much on my n-scale layout. except running trains, replacing one or two broken servos, tweaking some turnouts. at least i figured out what the next project will be : in my project box i have a couple of sd70mac. 4 of them will become grey kcs units (3900, 3905, 3907, 3932). more or less a simple paint scheme. however, masking the front antiglare panel and the black roof will be challenging. stay tuned for any progress on these engines. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.