I have a post war zw 275 WATTS i run that though a lionel lock on circut breaker to a tpc 300. Last night i was running a pensy T 1 with 7 lighted cars For some reason the fuse got hot and blew not the house lock on wont energize the solenoid. Could the house have been going bad? I ran the same trian on a diffrent line no problems yet. Is it to much for a ZW to run 3 trains?
What does this mean? "For some reason the fuse got hot and blew not the house lock on wont energize the solenoid."
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bob I'm thinking hes talking about the lock on lionel has that looks like a shed
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now just for info for you I have a post war ZW, I run with no problem 2 dual motor engines, one single motor engine ( this one is a pul-mor) 5 passenger cars all lighted, and 2 caboose lighted on basically a 8' X 14' layout. I use direct wiring to the track with surge protection at each feed to the track. I have also done this with one track being hooked up to a tpc-300 to one of the tracks with no problem.
I must agree I am not sure what this is. ""For some reason the fuse got hot and blew not the house lock on wont energize the solenoid.""
With my PW ZW I can run two Lionel duel pulmor motor Dash 8s a Lionel 1666 and a burro crane all at the same time with no problems. I have install 10 amp quick reseting breakers in line behing the transformer and have no problems.
I am thinking you must have something shorting out.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
I think there was a typo there.
He probably meant now and typed "not".
A ZW should be able to handle 2 long lighted passenger trains. 3 is pushing it.
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