Voltage of Z1000 power brick?

Sam;

19.3 output.

Just measured one yesterday while helping a friend.

 

Rod

Hi Rod and thanks for the reply.

I've some more questions posted on the DCS Forum that I'd like your thoughts on if you have a minute.

Isn't the brick marked 18v outage? The reason I ask I just bought a brick to use to power an MTH TIU for running two MTH proto 2 engines on a Christmas layout and I thought the engines max was no higher the 18 volts but MTH built these transformers for this type of use.

nominal vs. actual measured.

The nominal output is 18VAC with a 120VAC input. The actual output will vary as the input varies, as well as how much load is being placed on it. At this moment, my AC line is at 123VAC. I've seen it dip as low as 108 on very hot or very cold days here in Fla.(hot means lots of air coditioners, cold means people turn on the heat-- and down here it's mostly electric heat). That's why I use a cheap(used from Ebay) Fluke true RMS DVM to monitor input volts.

My brick puts out 18v measured at the track when I use it for dcs

Ok thanks but if the proto 2 engines list max 18volts can they handle if the voltage goes up to 19-20v

Yes, not a problem.