Description
This sale is for an original Lionel 1033 model which is the 90 watt version. Another one of TinMan’s gotta make it more better department. Just added, we are now installing a bright Green LED on the front. This provides 2 functions. It is of course a power on indicator and also is wired into the circuit breaker. In case of derailment the light will go off letting you know the new circuit breaker has opened. First the circuit breaker has been replaced with an upgraded with a much faster unit with a manual reset button. Why? If and when you have an issue with your layout, this new breaker will open much faster plus it will stay open until you reset it by pushing in the red button on the side of the transformer. Also the power cord has been changed with a 3 wire grounded plug. Inside the transformer we have attached the ground wire to the bottom metal plate. This is done just in case there is an internal failure that could potentially send power to the metal bottom plate. This worse possible situation would send any stray power to the ground pin. It also makes phasing multiple transformers a breeze.
Ok, so what do we do with these old timers:
- Change the Original Circuit breaker. The original breaker was designed to protect only the transformer itself, not anything after the outputs. They were very heavy duty and very slow to kick in. We replaced these with our new modern and now added a manual reset model giving you time to discover whatever caused the problem in the first place, then, reset the breaker manually yourself. So if you have a short circuit the push button on the back of the transformer shuts off the power and the button comes out. When you have corrected whatever problem, you had you then push the button back in and you are good to go.
- Change the original rectifier to a modern much heavier duty diode to operate the whistles.
- Change the power cord to a much heavier 3 prong cable and a grounding plug.
- Clean the internal copper coils and adjust the contacts.
- We thoroughly check the outputs, not just for voltage, but under 2 different loads.
- make a final check under load to make sure the unit is performing as specified. So not only do we do a voltage check without anything hooked up to it, we also check it with a 3amp and a 6amp resistive load, to insure it works properly in actual use
