An easy way to keep your droppers on the same side is to get an old wagon and paint one the colour of the positive wire and the other side the colour of the negative wire. When you put it on the track with the coloured side that you want at the front of the track you can drill the holes and solder the droppers with the same colour as the sides of wagon on the track. When you are finished just roll the wagon along the track to the next point for droppers and do the same again, just continue all the way around your layout until you get back to the start.
Interesting how you HO Scale guys do this process. I am a 3 railer. I use 14 GA Stranded, every six feet, just like you did. solder directly to the track.• Our power goes to the center rail which is RED. BLACK for the grounded out side rail. No reverse loop issues. Cool demo. Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
i’m not understanding a few things: - at each barrier strip, are you using a new piece of green and yellow wire from the strip to the rail? - where are the white and green bus wires receiving their power? is it coming from the nce control unit? i’m asking because the green/yellow feeder wire are going into the nce power system. that then poses the question, how do the green/yellow lead to the green/white bus wire?
Is it important to use the 12 gauge buss wire all the way into the NCE power station? So it doesn't cause a place of more resistance with the tiny wire ?
your viedo as right but one thing dc wire as right but dcc wiring as not right but close to it dcc have two end in wiring you doing some I was going to try doing on my layout
An easy way to keep your droppers on the same side is to get an old wagon and paint one the colour of the positive wire and the other side the colour of the negative wire. When you put it on the track with the coloured side that you want at the front of the track you can drill the holes and solder the droppers with the same colour as the sides of wagon on the track. When you are finished just roll the wagon along the track to the next point for droppers and do the same again, just continue all the way around your layout until you get back to the start.
Great points!
james is such a good father
Even we are mainly O scale, 3 rail, this is some REALLY GOOD INFO. Glad we tuned in! -RTT
Such a great video,u went over this perfectly and couldn’t really ask for a better explanation. I watched every one of your videos all great info.
Glad it was helpful!
Interesting how you HO Scale guys do this process. I am a 3 railer. I use 14 GA Stranded, every six feet, just like you did. solder directly to the track.• Our power goes to the center rail which is RED. BLACK for the grounded out side rail. No reverse loop issues. Cool demo. Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
Good video guys thanks for sharing Robert
Glad you enjoyed it
Good information. Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
i’m not understanding a few things:
- at each barrier strip, are you using a new piece of green and yellow wire from the strip to the rail?
- where are the white and green bus wires receiving their power? is it coming from the nce control unit? i’m asking because the green/yellow feeder wire are going into the nce power system.
that then poses the question, how do the green/yellow lead to the green/white bus wire?
Kan very excellent video Ken I like it are you showing me that the junction block very excellent
Thanks 👍
With DCC system, how do you deal with wiring reversing loops or wyes where the rails switch, inside to outside, as you referred to them in your video?
Is it important to use the 12 gauge buss wire all the way into the NCE power station? So it doesn't cause a place of more resistance with the tiny wire ?
no, my suggestion is to use no less than 20 awg to the station to run a large amount of trains without overheating the wire.
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Thanks!
The way I describe the difference between DC and DCC:- in DC, you drive the TRACK, in DCC, you drive the TRAINS
that's a great way to summarize it!
your viedo as right but one thing dc wire as right but dcc wiring as not right but close to it dcc have two end in wiring you doing some I was going to try doing on my layout