Battery-powered models - 1
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any modelers have experienced DCC-controlled locos
sputtering off and resetting over dirty track, and DC
loco stalls necessitating five-finger encouragement.
Some modelers have resorted to the use of “super cap” keep-
alive supplemental circuits which can power the decoder and
loco for a few seconds, but some keep-alive implementations do
not meet clearance requirements on HO layouts.
BATTERY-POWERED
MODELS IN
– by Dr. Geoff Bunza
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hotos by author
KAOS comes to model
railroading ...
HO scale
MRH-Nov 2014
