I recently completed a carousel and added the 12v motor from the kit manufactuer. I hooked it up to the accessory outputs on my Bachman DC throttle, which is rated at 16v. The motor ran for a short time then quit. Did I burn it out? What is the fix, change throttles, add some sort of bus or breaker, get a 16v motor? Not so good with electrical, any help appreciated.
Yes, I believe you burned out the motor running it on 16 Volts AC, since it was rated for only 12 Volts AC. In effect, you provided 25 percent overvoltage for what it is rated at.
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I carry one to the local club.
What is nice, they measure about 13.6 VAC on the NCE DCC system.
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Rich
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audreyspapa What is the fix, change throttles, add some sort of bus or breaker, get a 16v motor?
Nearly all of those permanent magnet motors are meant to run on DC current only. If you used the 16 V AC accessory terminal you probably did overheat the motor and cause it to fail.
Many of the motorized items on my layout, Walthers drawbridge and oil pumps, run way too fast even on 12 V DC. You might consider getting your hands on a 6 to 9 V DC wall transformer (wall-wart) I save all the ones from any electronic divices being tossed out. They will have the input and output marked on them somewhere.
If it has a tilde mark after the output voltage (12V~) it has AC output. If it has a line with three or four dashes under it is DC (which you can also use your meter to check)
The suggestion of having an inexpensive meter is helpful, too.
Good Luck, Ed