A portable Powercab?

It is a thing! This long mooted and completely un-original concept has been turned into a reality, a portable base station for my NCE Powercab…

I’ve created a box with a cable and DIN plug to connect to any of my micro layouts. The box has a 2.1mm socket to plug in a power supply. The top is a DCC Concepts Alpha panel. Inside two layers of car wheel balance weights give it some stability and it has rubber feet to provide a safe, secure footing.

Inside, the 2.1mm socket is wired to a plug that connects to the terminal on the Alpha panel. The layout cable is connected, through the grommet, to the green screw terminals on the Alpha panel.

The result? DCC sound on Wrecsam Canolog…

And a whole world opens up…

Parts list:

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Alpha Panel

Power supply

Box

Feet

Balance weights

2.1mm plug and socket 

Grommet M8

Layout cable

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