First of all I would like to say hello to everyone on The forum this is my first official post as I have just joined! Some background on what I am doing, I have been a railway enthusiast since I was probably 5 years old with intrests in British and American steam and early American diesel, that being said being said in the last year or so I have decided to dive in head first as I am of an age where I can finally afford to get involved with my dream fascination of o guage trains and begin building a small collection and start work on a Lionel layout, my focus for now is postwar style traditional engines and rolling stock , that's why I discovered lionchief plus and I love it , I can buy quality classic Lionel engines and operate them just like a real railroad 18 v power to the track and control each engine separately it's perfect for me! That being said I would like to open with a question about operating lionchief plus engines , I'm having a problem with them stalling jerky operatin and cutting power to the track , I have a small o72 oval for a test track right now and I am using a power pack from a set I think it's 1.8 amp output and my guess is that I need more ampreage? At low speed the engines will stall and loose power I just have to nudge them and the power back up I can't figure out why sometimes my gp7 will have jerky operation almost like the power is culling in and out really fast and on both of my engines when I fire the coil couplers it seems to cut out the track power all together everything goes dead for a second then starts back up even lighted cars , I'm thinking the coil is asking for to much Amos and opening the circuit breaker in the power pack ? Could anyone help me out is anyone else having these problems with lionchief plus ? If anyone's interested I could post some pictures of my setup and talk about how I improved the smoke units on these engines , I'm hoping this is simply a lack in supplied power problem although I'm not sure why a single engine on the track would loose power at a low speed then I just nudge it and it comes back on any input would be great thank you!
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