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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dkelly This 1 amp thing seems to be a major down check for the Bachmann system. I can live with the others, I think. I do have a question. I've noticed that several of the other systems have numerous boosters or different power supplies ie: 5, 8 and 10 amp. What exactly is that for? Tony's website discusses placing a booster between the command center and the layout. Can this be done with the Bachmann? [/quote] Boosters are basically add-on DCC power supplies for your track. They let you divide your layout into multiple power districts so you can run more locos at the same time. For example, say you have a very busy yard with trains coming and going and a switcher or two moving cars around and a roundhouse with locos idling away -- that could easily draw most if not all of your available power, leaving nothing to run trains on the mainline, let alone at another yard at the other end of the line. But if you put a booster on the yard, connected to the command station via whatever command link the particular vendor uses, and keep the command station/booster on the mainline, you now have more power to operate trains in both places. Whether you can add boosters to the Bachmann DCC or not is an unknown at this point, though I suspect not from what little I've read about it in their ad in the November MR.
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