It has a “weak booster” setting to ease the load onto boost-
ers so that a bunch of discharged capacitors in sound locos
don’t shut it down.
It has a very controlled trip, so there isn’t a large spark (pit-
ted wheels) when the short occurs.
It has connections for external LEDs to show status.
It has parallel input terminals for easy daisy-chaining of the
DCC supply bus.
There is a location to add a buzzer on board if you want a
sonic alert.
All the current settings are done by jumpers or setting CVs,
so there are no knobs to bump. I recommend using
the jumpers unless you need finer trip current settings that
can only be achieved with CV settings. As they come, they
7. PSx advanced circuit breaker from DCC Specialties.
American Hobby Distributors photo.
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DCC Impulses Column - 8
MRH-Nov 2014
