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Reply to "ZW-L Failure. I was afraid this would happen."

GregR,

A couple years ago I bought my dad a new ZW-L thinking how much liked his old PW ZW. He had years before added a Z4000 along side of that ZW. It took a bit of getting used to but he adapted and accepted the Z4000. My thinking was to replace both the Z4000 and the ZW with a newer model that could do the job of both. 

After a month, the ZW-L got shelved and about two months later he sold it on a popular internet auction site.  He for the same reasons as you did not like how it ran his older PW trains. His opinion is that the PW ZW is the gold standard of how all transformers should operate any locomotive (albeit no BELL button). Apparently the Z4000 made the cut in his opinion and lesser transformers like the CW80 and the Z-controllers never did or will. He could pick up on how chopped waved transformers operated his trains and that just rubbed him the wrong way.

I eventually wound up getting my dad the PW ZW Volt / Amp meter add on an online auction to be used with his old ZW, which he likes a lot.

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