Try it. However, I suggest you keep the Loco net Power (UR91 - UP5 - etc. always powered up). I have a master switch which shuts down all Power supplies...
Hello all, With the way the weather is up here in Minnesota today, I decided to cancel my usual round to the LHS, & maybe install a couple decoders. I'm...
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1 - Works for me. My entire layout room is on one Master Switch that controls the entire system. 2 - While I protect my RR computer with a "smart" UPS, I've...
I need help understanding the power requirments for a new staging yard I am wiring. I have 13 tracks which will hold all frieght equipment (no lighted cars)...
Surge protectors have few known vices, so are bound to add protection rather than adding problems, I suggest. As for powering down the layout - I never do. I...
I use Lenz, but Lenz cannot use the program track at the same time as running the layout, plus it has some issues reading some manufacturers decoders. To get...
... sound decoder to test out sounds,< This is a basic problem with testing the sounds from any manufactures decoder using a computer. Just take a look at...
The AMRS is conducting their annual winter open house from now till the 30th of December. The hours are 6pm to 8pm on Fridays and 12noon to 8pm on Saturdays....
CB: Sitting engines even with sound only draw perhaps 30 milliamps that's a lot of engines that can live on one breaker. You would be OK for power. Is this...
That was part of the purpose of setting up the _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitraxDocs/_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitraxDocs/) . Jim Working...
If you can't get your electric company to put an oscilloscope on your line, find a friend. The power grids are so interconnected anymore, that if you happen...
Yup, it's all about shorts, and some sound decoders come on again when track power shorts and comes back, like the MRC decoder in Challenger. Grrrr. Alex ... ...
... Yup, I do it. It is a good way to do it. The best way. I have seen it done with different types of systems, always works. DC, NCE, Digitrax. ... Surge...
Doug, Yep. I love the flexibility to do a huge Ntrak layout or something like that McKinley layout that is on YouTube with the full computer control and dozens...
I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this yet. (if they have its in a message that never reached me) Digitrax has announced a bi-directional radio system for the...
Alex I seem to be missing something here. You are the land of the free, and you cannot rely upon a power supply system that you pay for? Whatever happened to...
5280 feet divided by 87.3 would be 60.48 feet jfrench ... From: Mike To: Digitrax@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:27 PM Subject: [Digitrax]...
Group: I don't care where it comes from... the AC into our homes can be ratty at times. Here in the Northeast we're really soild until A. The entire grid goes...
Warning: rant getting OT. If you don't want to read OT stuff, delete this message. The issue is not about reliability, it's about the environmental consequence...
5280 feet / 87 = 60.689655172413793103448275862069 which you could round to 60 11/16" (60.6875) and only be off by 0.0021551724137931034482758620689655 or...
I am working out a number of power problems with my staging yards right now. The first thing to remember is that "power up" is the second most difficult...