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Subject: 
The perfect power strip...
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Thu, 11 May 2006 15:22:09 GMT
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OK, for those of us that have club layouts I am sure we have power strip issues. NELUG runs 3-4 trains plus we have an ammusement park that uses another 5-6 power supplies and then an additional 3-4 for other automation on our layout.

I am sure most other clubs have the same issues. Wires run everywhere and power strips are inadequate. If you have a standard strip with 6 plugs we are lucky if we can use 3. So they get chained together all over the place.

Not any more. We have found a new 6 plug power strip that works with 6 wall warts!



This means that we will be able to do a layout with 2-3 of these instead of 5-6 of the old poorly set up power strips chained together.

Obviously we got this one at Ace hardware as a store brand. I am sure there must be others around. Bring your cables under control!


-Eric



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  Re: The perfect power strip...
 
(...) While on the subject of power suppies. It's been mentioned in the past by others, but I recomend swapping in a slightly beefier transformer to run your trains. The LEGO train power controller can output upto 1 amp, but most of the wallwarts (...) (18 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.trains.org, FTX)

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