John, I'm wiring up the super chuffer now and I just want to be absolutely certain that it's ok for me to wire 12VDC directly to pins 1 and 2, with the positive going to pin 1 and negative to pin 2. This would be when I'm running on battery power.
When I switch to track power, it will be fed AC probably around 14 to 16 volts.
The diagram shows AC inputs, I'm assuming that there's just an on board bridge to convert to DC?
The signal that the DCC decoder will send to the super chuffer (to say that the smoke unit is to be switched on) is 10.5Vdc. Is that ok, or do I need to step that down to 5V first?
Edit: now that I'm looking at this, I still need a relay to connect the heater to track/ battery power don't I? For some reason I thought that the TMCC/ERR setup in the diagram was telling the chuffer to provide the current from the track to the heater, but after looking again, it looks like the ERR board actually provides the full current to the heater. My DCC board can't do that, it will only do 400ma so I still need a relay, right? Or am I looking at it wrong?
