The Pro Cab R has no booster (I have 3 of them), when you got it did it come with a separate black box Power Pro (has 5 amp booster) or Power House (no booster)? If neither you have probably have no

Relax! I have a Walthers/Shinohara 3-way on my layout controlled by basic, non-powered Caboose controls. All frogs are, of course, isolated. It has bottom-of-rail connections between powered rails and

That is correct Vincent. Be sure to connect the metal chassis of the command station (with its internal booster) and the external DB5 together with a bonding wire of #18 or larger wire. DonV From:

Ed thanks for your input. Yes the pro cab r model has 5amps of power. I now understand the wiring between the pro cab r and pb5 booster. They are to be kept separate into two separate booster

Unless the command station has terminals for track power it is not 5 amps, what model do you have. Unless you got the starter set the command station does not power the track. The output of the PB5 is

Vincent, Read and follow the wiring shown in the NCE manual. It is that simple. You will not need 2 boosters in your 5 x 12 layout. You will be hard pressed to even come close to using up the 5 amp

That helped a lot. So if i understand correctly the booster will supply to three power districts which make up one booster district. While the command control unit (which also has 5amps) will control

Ok, I have no first hand experience with the new systems. I am not sure what has changed with the new systems. The documentation of the new system promotes the ground wire as a AC Earth ground

Although it is true that if you have 2 Five amp boosters the simple math says they add up to 10amps. However that is not what happens electrically. That simplistic math ASSUMES the booster are wire

Blair,           Just noticed that you are using Digitrax. Like Vincent, I am also very new to DCC and purchased a Digitrax system for my small layout.           I get extremely

Hi, About 25 years ago, I built a 12x14 layout wired for two throttles. Maybe 10 years ago, I switched one throttle to DCC. The layout used Walthers (Shinohara I believe) code 83 turnouts. The

Vincent, As for the number of engines, what matters is how many you'll be running at any one time.  With a basic oval 5x12, you'd have about 30' of track; assuming double track, you might, if you're

Vincent I'd prefer some experienced NCE users to chip in here; my world is Digitrax. If no one does, I can try to sort the NCE manual for you; I'm sure it's not as bad as the Digitrax

Hi Ed, the pro cab r has a 5amp control station and the pb5 power booster is also 5amps. Doesn't that provide a total of 10 amps or am I missing something? Yes I want the capacity to run >10 loco

Blair thank you. The buzzer is powered by a 9volt battery. I don't have power to the track. After reading the pro cab r and booster manuals again I could swear the pro cab command station control bus

If I’m following this correctly but if you separate the layout into power districts 5 amps are plenty unless you plan on having 10 engine consists. I have seen 9 engine consists pulling 140 cars

Vincent I'm not an NCE user, but here goes. If you have two devices, each of which can provide 5 Amps to power your trains, you may not merge the DCS and DB booster outputs before

thanks Nick I appreciate your "2 cents". I'm going to get the layout figured out first then go to the wiring so I have a few weeks if not months before I get there. I appreciate all you guys giving me

I'm in a similar situation (rejoining the hobby after 35 years with zero knowledge of DCC) and will give you my two cents based on my last year wrestling with similar questions. Circuit breakers: if

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