@GGG, Thanks for your request for clarification. This Z-4000 melted down at a one of our shows, though there was nothing unusual about our layout at this show. It was a common configuration that we had been using for other shows earlier in the season. See attached picture......the melt down was on the right handle. Our curiosity is that another transformer that we had been using earlier in the year also failed on the right handle side, though not a melt down issue. We sent that one in for repair, received it back, and it was still not operating when we received it.
For this example, with the melt down, we were trying to operate a TMCC crane car with 18 volts. Transformer showed 18 volts and 6 amps and track read 3 volts. The crane car had been removed, since it was not working at 3 volts. We believe there was NOTHING on the rails to draw current at the time of the melt down. Someone smelled the "burnt" smell and shut everything down and we found the condition pictured.
