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I disagree with much of what has ben said here, by just about everybody. 1) A transformer is just that, you put AC in and you get AC out, it will not run anything but DCC or locos that are designed to run off AC; which i haven't come across yet.2) If you are going to go to DCC, do so early on and all you will need is a transformer with most DCC systems i have seen.3) A power supply is a device that supplies power, which may or may not be DC but usually is but it is always more than just a transformer.4) As far as power supplies are concerned, i cannot compare LGB with other train stuff but compared with commercila power supplies, they are pretty awful.5) Some critical areas are, a) full load to no load regulation, which i found on the LGB power supplies i tested to be very bad, ie the less the better and these were about 40 %. b) ripple, i also found thius to be nearly as high as possible, ie virtually no filtering at all.6) This doesn't mean that they are no good for operating model trains; in this direction i have had no trouble.Rgds Ian
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