R8239 eLink connection

[Chrissaf]

No.......well not the way your post reads anyway.

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What you can do is use the 4 Amp supply that comes with a R8239 to replace the eLink 1 amp supply. But you don't use the R8239 module itself to power the eLink. If you're using just the 4 amp power supply of the R8239 to power the eLink, then the R8239 module is left totally unused and stored away in a drawer somewhere. This maybe what you meant to describe in your question, but this meaning is not what you wrote.

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The output of the R8239 is not 15 volts DC, it is a DCC AC track signal, so it is completely useless for use as an input power supply to an eLink....... it is not the same thing at all.

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You can alternatively, connect the track output of the eLink to the input track connection of the R8239 and then connect the track output of the R8239 to the actual track. But although that is a valid connection option, it is pointless to do that, as using the R8239 4 amp power supply directly with the eLink as described further above achieves exactly the same outcome and is a more efficient way of using the 4 amp supply, but with fewer potential points of failure. If this was done, then you would have to have both power supplies in use, the 1 amp supply powering the eLink and the 4 amp power supply powering the R8239 and the track.

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[Chrissaf]

Can an R8239 output be connected ditrectly to an e-link controller instead of the 1 amp supply?

 

Yours Aye,

Chuff Chuff

 

 

 

[murray_robin]

Thank you

 

Chuff Chuff