Perfect Power Supplies for Model Railways

Text Box: Your choice of power supply really does make a very big difference to the quality of running of your model railway! In the end… it all comes down to quality: You can buy the best DCC system and wire it perfectly but if the power source isn’t as good as it can be, problems will happen. Inadequate power will mean the system voltage may sag under load, leading to instability…. And short circuit protection won’t operate properly either. Too high a voltage and mystery faults and runaways happen...or worse. We’ve seen it all far too often...and as a result, we developed our very own DCCconcepts power supplies especially for the railway modeller. Tough and solid, they are 100% guaranteed to exceed specifications and give perfect results on any model railway.

Text Box: DCCconcepts: PS-5 DCC power supply 14.5vDC regulated plus 15.5v AC – rock solid at 5 amps.

Text Box: This power supply is superb…. Super tough and it’s as good as it looks. Guaranteed to give stable output at any power up to its full 5 amp rating, it has a smoothly regulated DC output that we like to use with all brands of DCC equipment plus a second set of AC terminals for those systems that demand an AC input (Very few of them do really - as the first component inside most DCC systems is a DC rectifier anyway!) Of course, it also has excellent onboard short circuit protection and appropriate mains fuse protection too.  

Text Box: With a ton of power and big terminals for big wire it’s the perfect power supply for a DCC system using correct sizes of bus wire, and we’ve made connection really easy by using connectors that will accommodate plain stripped wires, ring terminals OR banana plugs! We are delighted to sell this power supply with every DCC system we offer and can confidently say that as a result, we’ve never had a customer with any form of layout control or power problem. Both power output and voltages are ideal… at the DCC systems default outputs it gives an almost Perfect track voltage of 13.4 volts with NCE and Digitrax and other main brands.... perfect for all HO, OO and On30 layouts! (For large scale we can custom make a 10 amp supply - Usual cost is $189) We recently found one more advantage we didn’t really expect! A client had a lightning strike on his home, and all of his electronics including computer, microwave, air conditioner etc were well and truly toasted... but NOT his DCC system, which we were delighted to find had been protected by our PS-5! Admittedly, the PS-5 itself needed some attention but we can ALWAYS service what we sell, so it was soon back up and running like new…. For less than $50! We rate that a very small price to pay to protect a $1000 DCC system and a whole layout full of locomotives and electronics!

Text Box: DCC-PS 5 Text Box: Goof Proof Guarantee for 12 months  Text Box: $129.00 each  

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Text Box: DCCconcepts: 2.5amp 12v DC regulated.

Text Box: Perfect for starter systems or small layouts or where a tougher power supply than that provided by the DCC manufacturer is needed. This fully regulated power supply comes complete with a plug set that will suit both the Digitrax Zephyr and NCE PowerCab systems perfectly. (Spec will be the same but item supplied may look different to this image)

Text Box: DCC-PS2.5 Text Box: Goof Proof Guarantee for 12 months  Text Box: $29.95 each  

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Text Box: DCC Power Bus Suppression/Termination.

   Text Box: Sold in packs of two. Add these to the end of each power bus to clean up the bus waveform and reduce the voltage spikes from momentary shorts that damage & kill decoders. Using one at the end of each branch of the bus will greatly improve system stability. Note: You MUST use these terminators if you use Insulfrog Peco points / turnouts!

Text Box: DCC-BT 2 Text Box: Add these for longer decoder life! Text Box: $10.00 pack of 2  

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