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What booster to use for a Digitrax Zephyr?

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Thanks for the replies all. I'm using 18 gauge wire with feeders every 6 feet or so. The furthest the track gets from the Zephyr is a good 20 feet in my roundabout way. The only thing running off the Zephyr is the track, and the short breaker trips fine. The symptoms I was experiencing were that while running two or three trains on different parts of the layout, they would all stop for a second and an error would flash across the screen of the Zephyr which looked like the "short" error. I had thought it was a loco problem so I had my crew move one loco at a time and the problem did not reproduce until the second engine started moving again. None of these problems happen while operating a single train - it runs smoothly everywhere. I was not looking to connect the throttle part of the Atlas system to my layout -- just the track power supply. IIRC, the booster hooks up to the track, not the throttle part. When I was purchasing my Zephyr there was an option to use a 3rd party power supply rather than the one Digitrax supplies. I opted to buy Digitrax's power supply, but is there a way I can wire in the Atlas power supply as a booster? If nothing else, it would allow my operators to bring sound-equipped locomotives to run on my layout.
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