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- From: al@nmt.edu (Al Stavely)
- Subject: Re: remote peco switches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.215512.7261@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech, USA
- References: <Bxxn2I.Gz7@math.uwaterloo.ca> <2845@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:55:12 GMT
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- In article <2845@tymix.Tymnet.COM> romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac) writes:
- >...
- >"snap action power supply" with real muscle. Such supplies
- >give a high voltage surge which lasts a short time and will
- >throw the most wimpy machines with authority.
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- If your mail-order source for the turnouts is in Britain, you can probably get
- such a power supply from the same source. It will be called a "capacitor
- discharge unit" or CDU. A simple one that you use with your existing power
- supply will probably be quite inexpensive and work beautifully.
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- - Allan Stavely, New Mexico Tech, USA
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