Post by winendine820 on Apr 23, 2024 18:30:54 GMT
Good afternoon everyone,
So here's the deal; I have the MTH Premier Boxed El Capitan set 20-3153-1 with Protosound. It comes with a Powered A, Dummy B and Dummy A and four 15" aluminum cars. I also have 2 matching 2-car sets totaling 8 cars in the consist. Considering there's only 1 powered unit, I'm thinking it might be too much weight for just 1 engine to pull the consist so my thought was to add a POWERED B unit to assist in pulling power. MTH has made them over the years and I came across 1, item 20-2151-4, from around the same timeframe. The instructions mention that when you activate the Passenger Station Effects, the DCRU unit in the POWERED B will follow the same steps as the POWERED A however you cannot have the volts higher than 10 to avoid the motors in the B unit to start turning. I would hope the lead POWERED A and the POWERED B will act in sync during that event and not have a tug of war when exiting the feature and STAY in sync during its run around my layout. Has anyone else been in the position?
So here's the deal; I have the MTH Premier Boxed El Capitan set 20-3153-1 with Protosound. It comes with a Powered A, Dummy B and Dummy A and four 15" aluminum cars. I also have 2 matching 2-car sets totaling 8 cars in the consist. Considering there's only 1 powered unit, I'm thinking it might be too much weight for just 1 engine to pull the consist so my thought was to add a POWERED B unit to assist in pulling power. MTH has made them over the years and I came across 1, item 20-2151-4, from around the same timeframe. The instructions mention that when you activate the Passenger Station Effects, the DCRU unit in the POWERED B will follow the same steps as the POWERED A however you cannot have the volts higher than 10 to avoid the motors in the B unit to start turning. I would hope the lead POWERED A and the POWERED B will act in sync during that event and not have a tug of war when exiting the feature and STAY in sync during its run around my layout. Has anyone else been in the position?
