Any problems with the Lionel Gw-180?
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It’s been out for quite awhile and haven’t heard anything about it so I’ll presume it’s a fine product.
It's been in production for over 10 years. There are no apparent issues, most likely because the power brick it comes with as a standard PH-180 PowerHouse, which is highly-recommended by many folks on this forum and elsewhere. It's well liked because it features a very fast and quite capable electronic circuit breaker and supplies a max current of 10 Amps. There are very few, if any, complaints about this brick.
You should have no issues with it, and the throttle unit doesn't seem to have many complaints either, at least as far as I can tell from searching the forum for previous comments.
Mike
I didn't remember anything negative about it. I saw one at a train show and just thought I'd ask before pulling the trigger. I saw about 10 views with no replies so I went ahead and grabbed it for $120.
The only issue I heard with them was that they were unavailable for quite a long time. The current street price for a CW80 is around $135 and the GW-180 is $270, so it looks like you got a great deal, Joe.
The seller certainly didn't realize what he was selling!
The club that was hosting the show was using three of them on the layout . They upgraded to a ZW-L so they were selling the three to offset the cost. I got the last one.