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Got an old MTH engine.   Has PS 1 I believe.   I have not powered it on and will not power it on until I follow the best advice. 

I know some here have said to get a battery of some sort. 

I am going to run it conventionally.  I have a modern zw transformer that I was going to use with one of the separate power bricks (180w i think?). 

Any suggestions? 

I don't know hardly anything at all about engines beyond conventional and I don't have any digital controllers of any type at this time. 

I just don't want to mess up the electronics in the MTH engine.  All the other engines I  have are conventional. 

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Read the instructions in the PS-1 manual.  Yes, new battery.    So first, is this steam or diesel?  Does it have smoke or not.  Get familiar with the switches and volume pot.

For PS-1 apply power around 10-12V and let engine startup with 2 dings and then idle or steam sounds.  Lower throttle to slightly less than 10V and press direction button.  Engine should start to move forward.  At that point you can move throttle as you desire.   Also can do some searches on this topic.  Plenty of wordy instructions posted.   G

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