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I have a Digitrax Zephyr to do my trains with. This works great with N scale, but it might be a problem when I start to use it with some of the S gauge trains I have been converting. 3 amps was nothing when someone first designed those things in the 1950s, so power consumption would definatly be an issue if I want to use more than 1 at a time What I saw through the oscilloscope gave me an idea: What if I bought a large 12 volt DC transformer and rigged it up with transistors, so its like an amplified version of what comes out of the DCS51? I definatly know how diodes and transistors work, and how to set them up, but what I'm not sure about is how big of a possibility there is for it to malfunction and destroy a DCC decoder. All I can say is, the Soundtraxx decoder from my other post wasn't actually the first one I bought, and I don't want to replace it AGAIN. Look, that happened because of a stray wire touching the track, but it still blew up the decoder. I didn't expect it to be so delicate, and I don't want to blow up ANOTHER because of a similar risky project. Tell me what you think and what could be possible issues with this idea. Oh, and if anybody knows exactly where I am supposed to buy a transistor or diode of that size, send me a link... Sorry Digitrax, but if I succeed, you may notice a few differences in the number of customers buying your boosters...
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