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What booster to use for a Digitrax Zephyr?

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Paul, you can find a diagram of my layout at the link below. The Zephyr is located in front of Lebanon Yard. [url=https://sites.google.com/a/trahans.net/wrs/layout]White River Southern RR - About the Layout[/url][quote user="60YOKID"][quote user="TrainManTy"]That's exactly what I don't get -- there are flickering walking o's, but no shutdown. And this was in the yard, 3 feet from the Zephyr. Far away from the Zephyr the entire layout shuts off for a split second, everything stopping.[/quote] Ty, I had a similar problem some years ago when I first started using my Zephyr. The problem only seemed to happen when several locos were operating. I finally decided the the total current I was using was about half of the full capacity of the Zephyr, and when a loco would run across a turnout and cause a very brief high-resistance short, that caused the overload to operate and a string of zeros would cross the readout. My cure involved working on my turnouts and a crossover, and this helped a lot but I never really got it totally fixed.  However, the problem disappeared completely when I converted to a DCS100. I think this is mainly because the DCS100 has a slightly slower response to a short circuit, and the higher current rating probably helps too.Just my 2 cents of experience. [/quote] This sounds exactly what I have. The problems occurred when A. two trains were operating and B. when at least one of them was moving over switches. What work did you do to your switches to fix them?And there's no way I have the money to convert to a DCS100, so will changing the bus wire help at all?
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