@laming posted:Tom S:
DC, eh? You bring up and interesting point, Tom! So, if I installed rectifiers in the engines, would that mean I could use conventional DC power (i.e. not an AF transformer)? I still have a Troller walk-around or two left over from my previous HO years, and MRC Tech2 stationary throttle power pack, that sort of power/control sources?
Andre,
To a certain degree, if you use rectifiers in the engines, they will run on anything that produces DC. However, it comes down to amps. I have an old Tech2 and it just didn’t have the amps to move the older open frame motors of the original Flyer. They moved, but not very fast. But with the Flyer converted to can motors, no problem. The old open frames run very well when you use a Flyer transformer with a rectifier. Again, it’s the amps.
I gut the electronics of any Lionel engine that won’t run on DC. Once all the boards are out of the engine, they are DC.
Tom Stoltz
in Maine
