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The Wiring For DCC Q&A Forum is dedicated to answering your questions about wiring your model trains for Digital Command Control. This is the new Q&A forum for the Wiring for DCC website. The old forum's server is no longer supported.

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Re: 3M suitcase connectors
Steve, I am in the process of building my layout so I have no historical data. I have some 3M connectors and some harbor freight. I will do a comparison and
Posted - Sat May 18, 2013 3:09 pm
Flash Gordon
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Re: 3M suitcase connectors
... Thanks ED I was not aware Harbor Freight sold those. I did take a look at those on the web site and they don't appear to be of the same quality as the 3M
Posted - Sat May 18, 2013 2:43 pm
Steve
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Re: Necessity of Soldering buss and feeders?
Oops! I ment to say I use the brown 567 3M suitcases not 456. An aside even though they say the tap side should be 14-18 gauge I used a lot of 20 & 22 gauge
Posted - Fri May 17, 2013 4:28 pm
Tom Jones
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Re: 3M suitcase connectors
Yeah guys. It is the so-called skin effect of 'high frequency' current flow toward the surface of the conductor rather than uniformly spread throughout the
Posted - Fri May 17, 2013 2:52 pm
Vollrath, Don
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Re: 3M suitcase connectors
Steve, Excellent description of suitcase connectors. But let me clear up one item. Sound does not travel on the wires. Only electricity travels on wires. And
Posted - Fri May 17, 2013 2:38 pm
Flash Gordon
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