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You could easily run 3 freight trains on one 180 watt brick and possibly 6. Passenger trains muddy the waters. As Cjack said, passenger cars well lit, take a lot of current. An F7 ABA with 2 powered units running smoke and pulling 10 well lit passenger cars could bring you very close or over the output of one 180 watt brick. Changing to LEDS in the cars would cut that in half. My advice is run the 4 channels off the ZW for now and in the future if you have overload problems change to a TPC system with double bricks. I have an around the room layout, under construction, running off of four 135 watt bricks divided into 4 blocks and I run 2 freight trains as long as I want at once with no problems. I intend to double them up in the future but not until the need arises.
Ron

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