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A cruise lite is rated for 4 amps, 5 amps peak. Its more than capable of driving that motor. The other question is will it work with that motor. It doesn’t do well with three pole motors. Cruise may not work well, if at all. As suggested above, Carl Tuveson is the go to guy for S scale TMCC applications.

Pete

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I installed a cruise lite with ERR Diesel RailSounds in the Lionel

JOHN DEERE RS-3 LIONCHIEF REMOTE CONTROL FREIGHT SET (RS-3 DIESEL #1837)SKU: 6-81480



works great, runs for hours pulling 25 + cars.
I did install a PTC on the AC input, I think it was rated 1.5 A.  Haven’t had any stalls or issues.

In my opinion, and from the rated spec. The Cruise Commander Kit would be the best solution, if you have the room.

After two CC-Lite boards ate their FET's, I started installing a PTC in series with the motors on every installation of the CC-Lite.  I rescued one of the CC-Lite boards, but the other one was a goner, it cooked the PCB traces and screwed up the whole area around the driver FET's.

I've since rescued a couple more CC-Lite boards that I bought dead and revived, but I've seen enough of them cooked to know that they're way more sensitive to an overload then the full Cruise Commander.  The only Cruise Commander's I've had to replace FET's on have been from obvious faults, typically a motor lead shorted to ground or a motor short.  I've actually had to replace a couple of the bridge rectifiers that cooked on the full Cruise Commanders as well.

Most Mabuchi 3xx can motors draw a couple hundred milliamps free running at their rated 12V power, so anything that's drawing 1.5 amps IMO is not suitable for the Cruise Lite.

The question was asked, and I answered it with my experience with the subject board.   Having installed at least twenty-five of these when they were available, I think I have a fair experience base with the product, I venture to say more than most.  I know I have invoices for 30 purchases of them, and I only have a few left, so the rest are out working, or they've already been cooked.

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