Reply to "which transformer to buy Lionel or MTH ?"

carsntrainsOGR Forum Member

Please note what the Lionchief sets come with. 54 watt DC power packs. And check out the power pack supplied with the Polar Express trolley set! It is DC also with adjustable voltage output!! Everything in a LC, LC+, and LC+2.0 is DC. So if you run any AC transformer you are converting wall power to 18volts AC, to send through a track, into the train to be changed to DC via the bridge rectifier . Then to be cleaned up via the capacitor. Only to power DC electronics and motor.

Then consider the wall pack. That changed wall power to 18v DC, through the track to the engine that now doesn't have to change anything. Just run on the DC provided. While your saving 450.00 Notice there isn't a CW 40 or CW80 in the catalog this year?

Jim

2/9/1911:20 PM

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