Hi Guys,
Jean and I just one hour ago had a big scare. I had been running some of my
trains around our Christmas tree and left the transformer on while getting a
drink. I had just sat down and was watching TV when all of a sudden there was
a loud POP! MY cats went running out of the room and my wife yelled FIRE ! I
jumped up and ran over toward the tree and saw smoke and fire coming out of the
bottom of one of the transformers, the one I had left on. Man, I grabbed the
power cord and unplugged it and pulled the transformer off the floor and
somehow undid the power wires to the track and ran it out to the garage and
placed it on the concrete still smoking hot.
I believe that the POP was the short in the transformer and it had blown out
the circuit breaker on the power strip and also the main breaker for that power
line in the basement. I was really lucky that the carpet was not burnt but it
was very hot when I touched it. Luckily, I did NOT have it on the cotton snow
so that did not catch fire.
Please be careful with your transformers and unplug them if you are not using
them. You can never be careful enough. ALSO, I believe it to be in everyones
interest to place something under the transformer such as a piece of wood so
you do not burn your carpet, linoleum, or wood floor. And never place it on
the cotton snow if you are using this at Christmas time.
Al Rawdon
PS - I am posting this to as many groups as possible as a safety warning.
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