Is there any reason a TMCC TPC-300 rated @ 300 watts would not handle the 400 watts a MTH Z-4000 transformer puts out? I know you would really need to be running a lot of trains to pull anywhere near that amount of power. Our club layout seems to be going through a lot of those TPC-300s.
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Hmmmm......TMCC TPC-300 rated @ 300......MTH Z-4000 400 watts.
Why not upgrade to a TPC 400? Having said that, a TPC 400 is designed to be used with two 180 watt bricks, so even then it would only be controlling 360w.
I'm no electrician but using anything rated less than the power supply seems like a bad idea.
Yoohoo, John, care to enlighten us?
The difference in the TPC 300 and TPC 400 is the size/rating of the circuit breaker. A TPC 300 would tend to trip upon experiencing 300 plus watts/
Dewey is correct, the only difference between the two appears to be the circuit breaker. I don't know why you'd be going through them unless something else is afoot.
Note that the Z4000 specifically mentions that you should NOT connect it's outputs together, so that's not exactly a recommended configuration anyway.
That is the only difference in price? The internal TRIACs or FETs don't have higher ratings? Interesting. G
I don't have any of them around anymore, but when I checked, all the other components looked to be the same ratings.
The only difference between the TPC 300 and the TPC 400, other than the
color, is the size of the circuit breaker. Short out the circuit breaker in the
300 and add an external 20 amp breaker or better yet add a fuse of the size
that will carry the load for each track or block you have.
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