Pine Creek Railroad posted:PDXTrains,
I am one of those people who thinks there is no desirable model of a CW-80. This is not a slam on Lionel, they make lots of other great transformers. As Marty indicated the modern ZW-L is one great one the old ZW and KW are great also. Use the 10 Amp Breakers with them. If you must use the CW-80 use it for a bumper Car line or a street Car line, the old KW is still better for that also. Never leave a CW-80 Transformer plugged in and unattended however.
You can purchase the good 10 Amp Resettable Breaker Banks from Train Electrics LLC call them at (231) 631-0447, easy to use and very reliable, delivered right to your front door.
PCRR/Dave
Resettable 10 Amp Resettable Breaker Panel just to the right of the DCS Hand Held Remote Controls, in the picture below. I have 4 sets of these reliable Breaker Banks and I use them between all my Transformers, modern one's included and TIU's, on the Red Line powering the mid Tracks on my layouts, thru out the Train room.
Thanks for that info! Train electrics no longer has a website. Phone only now? Also, is ten amps sufficient? I thought we should be running 5 amp breakers on these old transformer?
