Jerry Please differentiate between a voltage common reference, and a ground. I have personally removed a wire run from the ground in an AC outlet to a DCC booster GND connection. A very good

Last try. It's not about control. Since Alan couldn't convince you, how about an EE?

'I just thought of something, I don't have a separate ground running between all the boosters.' This is extremely important! We had problem with the layout until we confirmed that the all the

Blair, Thanks for pointing out this difference. I do remember reading this information and I understand the difference between common rail wiring on DC. I reread the information and looked at the

Rob, put a resistor in series with each 5V bulb. If you have a separate 5V power supply temporarily use it and measure the current drain by the bulb then calculate the required resistor value.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 02:01 PM, Michael Berus wrote: I have a couple of meters, One is a Centech 61593 and the other is a Klein Tool MM1000. Once I power up the reading is either full voltage about

Mike https://www.wiringfordcc.com/booster.htm You may be thinking of Recommendation 4-5 - Do Not Have A Common Rail or Common Wire Between Booster Districts But context is

AS a side note for what its worth. Allen Gartner shared in one of his Model Railroader columns that the inexpensive DVOM sold at Harbor Freight measures the AC track voltage at the correct level. I

Mike Though it may be unrelated to your problem, you must have misread the Wiring4DCC site. Digitrax wants the GND pin on boosters, DCS, and PM42 (possibly other items, as well)

Thanks for the response. It is true, I have no operational issues. I always have about 20 engines on the track. I have a very large S scale layout 65ft X 22 ft and two levels with two large staging

I am replacing the original Soundtraxx decoder that came in my SP Genesis MP15AC’s . When I tested the lights on the front and rear light circuitboards I discovered that the bulbs used are 5 V. The

Don Weigt <dweigt47@...> updated the album Car lighting keep alive cap: Greg Harter's passenger car lighting board with added capacitor. Greg reports lighting is constant for more than five seconds

The following photos have been uploaded to the Car lighting keep alive cap album of the w4dccqa@groups.io group. Greg Harter's car lighting keep alive 1.jpg Greg Harter's car

Mike, Since you are not having any operational issues ... I would suspect the problem lies in the voltage measurement. Perhaps the meter is going bad? Maybe the meter probes are "wonky" (gotta

Michael, If your boosters' track voltages really were dropping by half, your trains would run much more slowly or not at all. Since that's not happening, the actual voltage can't be dropping that

what are you useing to measuring it with & on what settings

I’m at the point of questioning the voltmeter and/or the probes. Especially since you claim there are no loco performance issues. Do the headlights look dimmer when DCC track voltage measures only 8

Dear DCC users, I have an intermittent voltage measuring issue, not an operational issue, at least not yet! About 2/3 the time I measure half voltage and the other times full voltage. Now this

Don's advice was perfect. installed 16V1000mfd across rectifier outputs. Thanks! greg harter

I have been using 2 QuadLN_S on my small layout for several years and just added a third. Excellent product and support.