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PH Bricks output a full sine wave at full voltage. This is less of an issue for use with modern equipment as you always have the 18 volts on the track.
Less of an issue if you run TMCC you mean? I thought that about the video. I would not expect the older transformer to do well for everything new at only 15 VAC. I would use a sine wave transformer at 18 VAC and it should work reasonably well with TMCC.
Conventional is another story.
I had some wonderings about the "capacitor charges up to peak" comment. Was Mike saying that the AC is full wave rectified and the peak value of the chopped wave is stored in a capacitor? And that the average current into the smoke unit or applied to the coupler does not drain it below that peak significantly? So in the case of the conventional running, the smoke and coupler work much better with the lower voltages used when moving the engine?
