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  • From: sharon pa
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booster offline
Posted by gondola1988 on Monday, December 28, 2009 12:40 PM

I have posted this on digitrax as well I have a DB 100+ booster that says offline . The power  and offline lights up when powered and there are no beeps ,nothing comes up on the dt 400 either  any suggestions would be helpful thanks Jim

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    January 2001
  • From: SE Minnesota
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Posted by jrbernier on Monday, December 28, 2009 1:21 PM

Jim,

  The DB100A or '+' was intially used with the 'Big Boy' starter set.  It can be used as a booster with other sets.  From the Digitrax 'Big Boy' manual:

Connect the two gray terminals, SYNC & GROUND, with a short length of wire, to select the booster mode when DB100 is initially powered up.

  I have an old DB100a myself(picked it up from a broken up Big Boy set the dealer had for $40).  I use it as a booster and it works great.  Depending on the 'vintage' of DB100, it will give you between 4.5 and 5.0 additional amps.

Jim

Modeling BNSF  and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin

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