DCS Explorer Load Capacity

The explorer does not care what engine is on the track. It is simply laying a signal on the rails, if there's something on the other end that speaks the same language, they talk. If not, then its ignored.

If it cuts the power with the lionel engine on the track and runs your MTH engine just fine, then investigate the lionel engine. 

Remove the explorer, see if it still shorts out (trips fuse in brick). If so, fix the engine. 

If not, then try replacing the fuse in the explorer with a 7.5 amp one instead of the 5 amp fuse that it comes with (its a reasonably standard auto size fuse). 

Thanks for the reply. The fuse in the Explorer is not blowing, so upgrading that fuse shouldn’t make any difference. It appears the Brick’s circuit breaker is tripping. Interesting that I can run the Lionel Engine just fine using the Lionel DC power pack and have run it while running another Lionel engine on the same layout.

I have another Lionel engine I can try. I’ll let you know what happens.

Phil,

The DCS Explorer is limited to 6 amps maximum current draw. Changing the fise won't change that and may actually cause harm.

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Interesting thread, those two engines should not exceed 6 amps and the 100 watt brick should also be around that same amount. I hope someone has an idea. I had an explorer a month or so ago but on!y ran mt h together. When I switched to LC i used the multi controller for them, powered off a z1000.

Well, Mr Boilermaker was right!  I switched to another LionChief plus locomotive on the track and both that one and the MTH engine run just fine, together. I’ll have to check the Lionel forum to see what might be the issue with the first engine.