Legacy Power Supply contents

I hereby retract my previous reply.  I see that I am out of my league on this one.   Sorry.  

Agreed, the class cylinder is an axial lead fuse.

I was thinking the yellow disc may be a Bourns MF-R185 PTC resettable fuse.  It does appear to have the Bourns logo on it, and appears as if it may have the distinctive inward U bends on the leads.  Bourns MOVs I've found come in a blue package, but otherwise look similar to a PTC without the U bends in the leads.

I'm mostly guessing here.

Just a guess, but the yellow disc may be for lightning protection/suppression.

Drawing a circuit of how they're wired would be helpful.  I know I replaced the fuse in one of these with a PTC, that means I don't have to open it again for the fuse.

Me too…but external fuse.

If the yellow component is a Bourns MF-R185 PTC as I speculated, would these be the correct ratings of 1.85A Hold,  3.7A Trip and 30V max?

If the unit is used, as the OP may be implying, could it be that a previous owner installed it and left the original (possibly blown) fuse in place?

EDIT: The Bourns MF-RHT200-0 is a 2A PTC fuse and may be better suited for the Legacy Base2 transformer.

I opened up an older Legacy brick, one that came with a #993 expansion set.  All I found was a fuse in one leg of the secondary, it was a pretty robust fuse.  The markings weren't all that clear, so I torture tested it with a 10A current controlled bench supply.  It took around 9 amps to pop it.  I replaced it with a 2A hold, 4A trip PTC and buttoned it back up.  I won't ever have to open that one again...

FWIW, in looking at your picture again, it does appear that the PTC was just jumpered across a dead fuse, it's on the same pads as the fuse.   I went deluxe and removed the fuse.

Having just looked in side, my board is exactly the same as this one, it's on the secondary side.  The primary has no visible protection, but maybe the "in the windings" primary fuse is still present like some other supplies.

I had a bad 993 once and tried an extra supply to see if it was the supply that went bad. I ended up with two bad supplies with blown fuses and a bad 993. I sent the 993 in and it came back intermittent. But this time it just went dark without blowing a fuse. That time it turned out to have a bad (intermittent) full wave rectifier which I replaced. It's been good ever since.

I blew a couple of these fuses doing the TMCC buffer.  I tap off the earth ground from the barrel of the P/S with a tether with a male and female 5.5/2.5mm barrel jack jumper.  A couple of the tethers had a short when you flexed them and took out the fuses.  I had to fix one for a customer of the TMCC Buffer with a PTC.  I zapped one of mine in the testing as well and had to fix that one.  This latest one was working fine, but I figured since I had it open, I might as well make any fix permanent.

So is the PTC a customization by the previous owner?

I will have to dig my own system out and open it. If it is exactly the same, then Lionel did it, as mine was factory sealed when I bought it.

Stay tuned...

Chris

LVHR

Certainly is Chris, that's not stock from Lionel.  I've opened four of these so far, and all just had a fuse.  All of them now have a PTC, but I'm not that sloppy, so I remove the fuse.

Following....

I was able to get over to my buddy's house and use his security bit set to open my power supply. As GRJ stated, there is only one component attached to the board: the clear glass fuse. Based on the condition of my fuse, his is definitely blown. So now to order a couple of the PTC fuses (I have another Legacy power supply to do as well). I'll pull the glass fuses when I do them, as I like a neat job.

Chris

LVHR