... Thanks for your response, I will be using Peco Code 55 "#8 Curved, #8 Large Radius and #6 Medium Radius Turnouts, SL-E86/87, E88/89, E95/96 Turnouts (60)...
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dennis.ring@...
dennis.ring...
Apr 1, 2011 11:25 am
I am designing my first DCC HO Scale train layout. I have already bought an NCE Power Cab to use as my locomotive throttle. From an operational standpoint, I...
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wirefordcc
Apr 1, 2011 1:06 pm
Videographers, If anyone makes a video of how to do DCC wiring, I can post it to the Wiring For DCC website. At the moment, I have plenty of unused space. ...
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Doug Stuard
dougstuard
Apr 1, 2011 1:13 pm
For clarification, there are two ways to implement "power routing" in turnouts: 1) The frog rail of the non-selected route is set to the same polarity as the...
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Vollrath, Don
donevol
Apr 1, 2011 3:37 pm
Dennis, All the components will work together as you propose. Once you start using the NCE SB3a, the PowerCab becomes 'just a cab'. Its track power...
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Doug Lay
djlayca
Apr 1, 2011 3:58 pm
Thanks Doug for your reply. For the two Kato turnouts that I mentioned, their printed circuit boards come set-up as you mention in your item 2) with frog rails...
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dennis.ring@...
dennis.ring...
Apr 1, 2011 9:54 pm
Don, Thanks for your help. Question: As typically only one or two trains will be run at any onetime, would it make sense to build a separate Accessory Bus...
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stephenkuehn77
Apr 2, 2011 7:18 am
There is also YouTube or Vimeo. I suppose downloadable video files on the site would allow for more reliable higher quality, though. Thanks for this. It...
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rg
richg_1998
Apr 2, 2011 3:46 pm
I use You Tube a lot. Very easy. Since I use Firefox Browser, there is a downloader Add On that makes downloading other videos into my PC very easy and is very...
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Vollrath, Don
donevol
Apr 4, 2011 2:20 pm
Dennis, I have done both. My NCE system uses one booster to run the track and a second booster to run an accessory bus to power turnouts and signals....
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dennis.ring@...
dennis.ring...
Apr 4, 2011 6:00 pm
Don, Thanks again. You've been a great help. Dennis...
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BF halloran
bfhalloran...
Apr 7, 2011 12:42 am
Photo E-mail Play...
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wirefordcc
Apr 9, 2011 12:52 am
Bernie, I tried viewing your photos, but received an error message about there being too much traffic. You can post photos to this forum. You can't attach...
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BF halloran
bfhalloran...
Apr 9, 2011 1:29 am
Allan, I'll do that, meanwhile, had a chance to take a look at the understand of the code 75 wye? Bernie ... From: wirefordcc<mailto:wire4dcc@...> To:...
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Colin Seggie
colinseggie
Apr 13, 2011 2:27 am
Hi. I'm new to the group, also new to model railroading. For the past year I have learnt about DCC decoders in locos and how to program them, now I'm about to...
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Colin Seggie
colinseggie
Apr 13, 2011 2:28 am
... From: "Colin Seggie" <colinseggie@...> To: <WiringForDCC@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 7:55 AM Subject: Circuit breakers...
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Mark Gurries
gurriesm
Apr 13, 2011 6:46 am
BD20 is a block detector. There is no add on circuit. Circuit breaker are made by many manufactures. NCE: EB1...
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colinseggie@...
colinseggie
Apr 13, 2011 11:26 pm
Thanks for your Reply Mark. No on reflection it was an assumption on my part:1 that you had to have a light bulb or a circuit breaker. Then when when you...
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harsh_steve
Apr 18, 2011 6:35 pm
I am new to DCC and it has been a while since our trains have run – stopped when the boys discovered cars and young ladies. I am now back to the old layout...
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Paul O
pomilian...
Apr 18, 2011 7:41 pm
Steve, Quickest/cheapest fix: Get some of your wife's clear nail polish and paint a small portion of the rails nearest the frog where the short occurs. Â Next...
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stephenkuehn77
Apr 19, 2011 1:40 am
These are excellent suggestions. Assuming HO gauge, I had exactly the same switches (though mine did not short out in this manner -- I found that newer...
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dmerrill1967
Apr 20, 2011 2:20 am
Steve, Welcome back!!! You are right in the cause of your short. The nail polish like Paul mentioned will work but it does wear off after a while. I...
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dennis.ring@...
dennis.ring...
Apr 23, 2011 1:47 pm
Reading section 6.2 of their manual, I am confused. What is the convention (ie, number/leter designation range) that can be used to identify a specific...
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Ken
kdkal1
Apr 23, 2011 1:49 pm
Dave, advancing years makes me a little slow at visualizing this I guess. Do you have any pics or something on where to do the cuts? I always thought the...
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dmerrill1967
Apr 29, 2011 3:12 pm
Ken, The notch is made to the back of the rails where the straight and diverging rails almost touch. Originally the end of the flange of the rails was square,...
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Ken
kdkal1
Apr 30, 2011 3:20 pm
Hi Dave, your 1st sentence below helped a lot as I then put wheels on a turnout and saw just where you were talking about. Thank you for the clarification and...
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dmerrill1967
May 1, 2011 1:30 am
Ken, Glad that you can see that solution. Worked on my older Bachmann GS4's. Regards, Dave...
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donevol
May 1, 2011 4:35 am
The 'execute address' is another way to create a macro that will throw/clear several turnouts with a single command. The execute address is the 'top addresses'...
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dennis.ring@...
dennis.ring...
May 1, 2011 11:40 am
Don, Thanks for the clarification. Dennis...
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scaletone
May 19, 2011 3:41 am
Hello All I have an auxilary bus on my layout which is 16v 5amp 75va unfortunately one item I want to put on the layout is 16v DC so my quastion is: Can I...
