@lehighline posted:With a properly rated breaker (typically 15 or 20A) in your home's electrical panel and the breaker(s) in your transformer(s), you should be safe from fire.
The thing to watch out for is if you have more than one house circuit, and therefore multiple CBs, feeding the receptacles in your train room. Multiple house breakers and receptacle circuits MUST be on the SAME leg of the power feed into your house! Otherwise you have out of phase power sources feeding to the same point, a BAD situation! A qualified electrician will understand this immediately.
Chris
LVHR
Chris, you've raised a good point, but I need some clarification please. Our new-to-us 105 yr old house has a 100-amp breaker panel & an 80-amp breaker panel next to it. If I run my trains off a dedicated 20-amp breaker from either panel will phasing of the panels be a concern to me ? If so, how would I check the phasing ? ps. everything electrical in the house seems to work ok (despite the sloppy wiring which I'm correcting) Thk you ! Rich in SD
