Ken Patterson Fire - Could his problem effect us?

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If you haven't heard of this, Ken Patterson, host of What's Neat this week/month/podcast, etc., recently had a fire on his layout which, FORTUNATELY, resulted in only minor damage to his home. The fire, from what I have gathered, has been attributed to his Digitrax DCC system. A train derailed at a switch and shorted the track. The system circuit breaker is designed to continuously cycle power to see if the short has been cleared. Due to the short and constant power cycling, the track heated up to the point of causing a fire.
All this happened when he was away from the layout making coffee.

My question for this forum is: Could this same thing happen with our RailPro systems? I just don't know how the fault detection circuitry works within RailPro systems.

Personally, I try to never leave my trains running unattended, but I have been known to leave the layout powered on by accident. This whole incident has lead to addition of a couple extra smoke detectors in my train room & basement just in case.

[LVRR1856]

Sure can.
Even a straight old DC layout can catch fire. A DC transformer does have a built in breaker that cuts out on a short. (remember when the red light on the xfmr would come on?)

You would need to have the short and then constant power feed. You have probably experienced a DC short at some time, and Loco gets hot and you smell a melting situation ... eventually it could flame up. It's kinda like a toaster wire turning red, can burn something.

Railpro puts out 14.7v and about 5 amps ? Enough to cause a problem if left in short stage.
Ring makes the CB-1(circuit breaker), someone can explain how they work .. I have not installed mine yet. Not sure if they cycle on/off like dcc ?