I constructed a home made power supply and thought you all would be interested. I am using it for an N scale setup but it also could be used for G scale.
Nice looking power supply and throttle. While it would work excellent for the smaller scales, it’s too light except for small single engine trains. Most good power supplies are 10 amps or better. If you could design a good 10 amp supply (no throttle) then you would have a great outdoor power supply. Most people use some form of R/C for control of outdoor layouts. Throttle based supplies keep you too close to it and not close enough to the trains.
This unit has 2 power supplies inside both rated at 4.2 amps each. I could be wired up to have one throttle running one train and another throttle running another train. I agree that 4.2amps is not allot but consider that your 10 amp system shares one power supply and has auxiliary shared in as well. I am sure that one Loco does not exceed 4 amps.
I realize it is not remote controlled but how many G-scalers actually use remote?
Jason Brown said:
.......BIG SNIPI realize it is not remote controlled but how many G-scalers actually use remote?
Congratulations on building what you want.
I think you would be quite surprised as to how many LS’ers do use remotes.
There is an awful lot.
Many thousands of TE’s have been sold since theywere introduced around 1995. A couple of years after RCS pioneered R/C of track power for Large Scale.
Jason Brown said:
This unit has 2 power supplies inside both rated at 4.2 amps each. I could be wired up to have one throttle running one train and another throttle running another train. I agree that 4.2amps is not allot but consider that your 10 amp system shares one power supply and has auxiliary shared in as well. I am sure that one Loco does not exceed 4 amps.I realize it is not remote controlled but how many G-scalers actually use remote?
Id prolly say more than half…caus a lot of the guys who are mostly track powered still have an RCd loco in the stable…if nothing else use a TE as a throttle for their track power…
Cool case, I like the wood throttle knob…very nice.
re: Remote control. If you’re going to do ANY kind of operations, then you either need to have some way to walk around with your train, or have two people per train, one engineer, one switchman. Its simply not feasible to run switching while sitting on my patio.
My track powered indoor layout is controlled with a Train Engineer. Most “G” scale layouts are just too large to be tied to a stationary throttle. Before R/C was readily available I used an MRC walk-a-round throttle. Even that was too restrictive.
I realize it is not remote controlled but how many G-scalers actually use remote?<
Jason,
Prolly 75%.
Either track, batt/rc, or DCC.
TOG
I am surprised to hear that 75% use remote. I only know 10 people who have a G scale and none of them use a remote. must be just people in my area. Anyway I got my power supply done the other day.
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Very nice… is that all pine?
I think the “who uses remotes” thing reflects how people run their layout. If you have a layout around your garden as another ‘garden feature’ (like so many layouts in GR) then a stationary power pack works just fine. You dont need fine control of where the train stops, etc.
If you’re into operations, and need to switch out industries all around your yard, then remote control is the ONLY way to go.
Just remember that 83% of all statistics are made up.
To me, Radio Control of the throttle is the single most dramatic change we have had in model railroading in the last 50 years. Yes, battery operations is great. Sound is great. Maybe there is 1% that think DCC may be of some value. But being able to be next to your train or up on the patio or weeding the garden is the very greatest.
Bruce, I thought it was 84%? 
Bruce is a figment of your imagination…
Ric Golding said:
To me, Radio Control of the throttle is the single most dramatic change we have had in model railroading in the last 50 years. Yes, battery operations is great. Sound is great. Maybe there is 1% that think DCC may be of some value. But being able to be next to your train or up on the patio or weeding the garden is the very greatest.Bruce, I thought it was 84%?
Ric.
It is a matter of record that RCS was the very first to make R/C for Large Scale trains commercially available in 1992 without using regular 2 stick type Digital Proportional R/C.
I will take that as a big compliment.
Thank you. 
It was certainly meant to be a compliment.
Warren Mumpower said:17% of the imagination. The other 83% is currently fixated on Maedchen in Bierkellers.
Bruce is a figment of your imagination....:P