Hi all,

I have a 60174 booster and a 60061 power supply. I noticed yesterday, that an overload situation occurred with a BR 141 (Trix #22143), where the booster did not detect it. Apart from some smoke (from the power pickup external resistor), the loco is fine and works without problems. No damage was done. I was, however, kind of puzzled on why the situation was not detected?

I have tested several different overload situations with that same locomotive during the setup phase. I have never seen this happen before. Neither have I been able to reproduce the problem. Normally the overload detection kicks in at around 5 seconds after the overload begun (a bit long time for my taste, but I have not found a way to change that).

In my investigation on the problem, I noticed that the booster settings was set to use a 60101 power supply. I changed this to the 60061. I then wondered if perhaps this had something to do with the problem.

My question is: Does the booster change its overload detection to match the power supply that it is setup to use? Meaning that a setting at 60101 would tolerate a larger load than a setting at 60061, even though the power supply is a 60061.

That's why you select which power supply you have.

There was a time when the CS2 had different software versions - one for transformers (AC), one for DC power supplies. Different parameters for overload detection.

If the booster is set to turn off at 5 A (that's what you get with a 60101 setting) and you use a 3 A power supply, it's no surprise that the overload protection will be triggered with a delay.