PIKO Digital Steam 36220 issue

[David Peacock]

Observations from the relevant manuals.......

USA Trains Train Power 10, supplies upto 20 volts DC, dependedent on wire gauge which should be at least 20 gauge stranded, longer cable runs should be 18 gauge to prevent voltage drop.

DIAL-A-GAUGE, determines voltage and output waveform?????

PIKO 36220
Power requirements, 0-24V smooth filtered DC, power packs that produce an output waveform as a pulse or pulse width modulation will result in erratic and unreliable operation, and therfore should not be used.

That's interesting ,, considering how many people run Piko engines on straight DC. I'll have to research that.

 

[David Peacock]

As John S started to mention, I believe you might have a power supply that is NOT considered pure or well-filtered. (A well-filtered power supply is more expensive.) Piko seems to use a well-filtered and pure DCC on their systems. I believe the only pure DC systems are Piko, LGB, and Bridgewerks. I have the Piko system and it is "pure DC". The other companies say they have pure DC, and i have heard good things about Bridgewerks power as well.

Observations from the relevant manuals.......

USA Trains Train Power 10, supplies upto 20 volts DC, dependedent on wire gauge which should be at least 20 gauge stranded, longer cable runs should be 18 gauge to prevent voltage drop.

DIAL-A-GAUGE, determines voltage and output waveform?????

PIKO 36220
Power requirements, 0-24V smooth filtered DC, power packs that produce an output waveform as a pulse or pulse width modulation will result in erratic and unreliable operation, and therfore should not be used.

This is most likely the reason. and why it's seemingly only noticeable a slow speeds. Looks like im going to have to add a buck regulator or a linear regulator to the PS line out. Thanks for the help

 

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[David Peacock]

Wonder if this may be of help...
Aristo Craft Train Engineer Revolution PWC-->Linear Converter ART57091
www.trainelectronics.com/ART5700TrainEngineerRevolution/PWC--Linear_CRE57091/index.htm

That's interesting , thanks for the link,, Oddly,, it looks very much like a simple LowPass filter

This will probably do the trick, a up to 8amp DC to DC linear regulator

Or maybe this at 7a max