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Hello, guys. I am now learning about this stuff so i can make a purchase of switches, motors, etc. I'm a newbie here. I took the following out of the online manual for NCE's stationary decoder for Atlas type switches ........... """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" The Snap-It draws the most current when the layout power is first turned on to charge the capacitors. It will never draw more than 65mA (.065 Amps) during this time. After the capacitors are charged the current drops to about 2mA (.002 Amp). This means that 30 Snap-Its will draw about 2 Amps when the layout is first turned on, then the current will drop to about 60mA which is about the amount of current drawn by 1 locomotive headlight. Most DCC systems can easily supply twice this much power. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Should I take thier comments with a grain of salt? Do you guys disagree with NCE? I'm not going to have any where near 30 switches. I'm using a 5A DCC system. Is it very difficult to wire in an additional power source, since the decoder needs the signal provided via the track? Thanks for putting up with my greenhorn questions. I need to take a few days off of work and just read every thing I can on DCC and model railroading in general. That would be fun. Ken
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