Additional 180w Power House

Don, How can we answer this for you  Are you using close to the 20 amps you have available now?  Biggest gain is the independent additional 10 amps for the small handle channels.  If your using them for train control (loop) I would say yes, but it is your money.  G

Buy them. If nothing else, you will have spares while fixing one. I use four of them on the ZW-C and have had that experience.

Thanks, think I will do it.  More is always better, and a spare doesn't hurt.  Sorry for the silly question.     (No offense taken, think I need more coffee. 

I have a bunch of them, but I pack them up for modular shows to power our traveling layout.  It currently takes five of them for everything when we have the staging yard as part of the configuration.

You can't be too rich, too thin, or have too many PH-180's.

  G

Just as kind of a humorous aside, if you will, I remember when this stuff first came out and I was all into the IC Controls boxes and what they could do.  The 135 powerhouse was the gig then, and they advertised a cable that could connect two 135s to my BPC box.  Had to have it, even though my layout was two loops on a 6x9' platform.  I got my new 135 and splitter cable and was so excited to put ten times the amount of power to my track that I would ever possibly need that I hooked up the leads in reverse, instantly fried my BPC and shut me down for two weeks till the good people at IC controls could fix my fried BPC and send it back to me.  Lou was a good guy, I talked to him a couple times, he good naturedly chided me for torching his box, saying it was a first and almost impossible to do.  Well I did it.  Don't do that!
That BPC eventually lost it's track one power feed many years later.  For sure because I couldn't properly connect two wires.