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Hello Gary and bukwrm Ok just did an experiment took five locos and put them on my independent test track that is mounted on a 6 foot piece of 2x4 then hooked it up to the tech 4 same dang thing overload so it is not the locos even tried five others then i hooked up the small cheap Railpower 1370 power pack and then put the five locos on there then another five for a total of ten locos altogether on test track at same time ok? open the throttle they took off all ten of them forward and back several times i held them in place then opend the throttle bout 3/4 the way no problem but i noticed that i had alot of power trying to pull away then i stopped/reversed the direction had them 10 locos pushing against my fingers man you can really feel the power they have there had so much that 4 locos near the front jacknifed and derailed from the force of the other locos pushing against them so why is it the small Railpower pack can handle 10 locos and the Tech 4 that has more than twice the power only handle 4 locos and overload on the 5th i dont think it takes that much to power the layout then i could be wrong
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