Originally posted by TS on the RailPro Users Yahoo! Group on Jul 24, 2015
ot to put a dampener on Bills reply, but you really want a regulated
(not just filtered) supply, otherwise with a lot of loading your track
voltage might drop too far to be usable. Other than that any DC supply
that outputs in the acceptable range would be fine.
You may or may not loose short circuit protection (a lot of supplies
do haver them built in) but you will loose the repeater function as
your supply won't have one, and loose the ability to turn the track
power on and off with the controller.
As for battery power, yes this does work too but I'm not aware of
anyone who has actually done it with Railpro yet. Generally the size of
the batteries and the pain of recharging them is probably the biggest
stumbling block.
Cheers,
Tim