Reply to "bare minimum equipment necessary to run LC+2.0"

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@SirCaptain posted:
A TVS Diode (Transient Voltage Suppression) sacrifices itself when a there's a voltage spike.
A $0.64 investment to save those $6400 worth of trains in the event you have some kind of voltage surge. They short when there's an overvoltage above it's rating, and then you replace the shorted TVS Diode with a new one.
If you use a transformer - you'd ideally attach it between the 2 posts, or if you have a terminal brick, somewhere along there, etc. Then you ignore it until it fulfills it's duty.

Are these functionally like circuit breakers? Have heard of them frequently mentioned here but have not bothered to dig into what they are.

Edit: seems H1000 more-or-less answered the question, thanks.

2/4/2312:29 AM

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