Your thoughts on an MRC Tech 6 power supply

[RR_Mel]

I’m thinking about up grading my DC power supply.  I operate my layout dual mode.  I’m currently using an older MRC Sound & Power 7000 or a MRC Tech II 2500 for DC operation and MRC Prodigy Advance² Squared for DCC operation.  All three work great!  I’m not using the 7000 sound system.

 

As it doesn’t take much to figure out I’m an MRC fan, I also drive Fords and before DVDs I was a Beta Max guy too.  I use MRC Brilliance Sound Decoders as well as Digitrax and Soundtraxx Tsunami Decoders.

 

When I run in DC mode I normally have multiple diesel locomotives and fully lighted passenger cars totaling a bit over two amps load.  Add in another steam locomotive and the current can creep up to three amps which is marginal for either one of my DC power supplies.

 

I was kicking around buying a MRC Tech 6 Sound Controller 6 amp power supply for my DC operation and adding in the Hand Controller in the future.

 

I’m looking for Pros & Cons of using the Tech 6 for operating my decoder equipped locomotives on DC.  I like DCC operation for it’s sound and gadget control but my preference for powering and running my locomotives is DC.

 

I have power balanced all of my paired locomotives for DC operation so that isn’t a problem running on DC.

 

Mel

 

 

Modeling the SP in HO scale since 1951

[mlehman]

No experience with the Tech 6 myself, but IIRC that's the one that BRAKIE uses and really likes. You might drop him a PM if he doesn't chime in here.

[CSX Robert]

In a lot of ways, what you are looking at doing is the same as what you are currently doing, but in one convenient (and, for the DC side, more powerful) package.  When you use the Tech 6 in "dual mode", it is operating as a DCC command station and in standard mode it is operating as a DC throttle.