Bachman EZ-Track? What r ur regrets? Thx Larry J Moray, DDS, MS President, The Happy Tooth Dental Group ‘Changing People’s Lives through Affordable, Accessible

Hi Greg: An other option are "suit case" connectors, no stripping, already insulated, $0.05 each. If you want to use shrink tubing, instead of a butt

I have a small layout with about 100 feeders and 6 power districts. I'm not accomplished at soldering. No way I could solder that many feeders working overhead under the table. I used suitcase

I am new to DCC, although I have been accumulating 'stuff' for 20 years - HO scale, so I have lots of questions, most pretty basic. Since the bus to feeder connection is a 'T' and precludes the use

Aaron, I actually did watch that video back when I was looking at computer power supplies. I think I did the classic assume move and made the assumption that a pre-built header wouldn't need or would

Wayne, Try watching this video by Joe:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkP3rgciy3M It’s rather informative, he has a whole series on layout construction so there could be other video’s that

Puckdropper, So the hard drive helped, the load caused the negative 12v to go from 9v to 11.3v. If I recall right in some of the homemade power supply conversions they wire in a couple 10w ceramic

Puckdropper, Great idea.. I have hundreds around my shop here. I'll grab one and test it. Wayne

Do you have a spare computer drive anywhere? For this test, you can even borrow one from a working system--you just need it for a few minutes. Just plug a drive in to one of the power cables and see

Hi Wayne, There several ways to check it out. However, which is "better" depends n just how it has been implemented. Is it all in a nice case with just two wires for the output, or

Wayne, When I wanted +/- 12 for tortoises (up to 60 of them), I simply bought two 12V, 3A power supplies on the surplus market (link to a similar product follows). Tie the + of one to the

Mike, I had read on that which is why I went the route of a pre-made device. With the home-built custom job computer power supplies I had seen where they say to put a phantom load. I assumed I was

Hi Wayne, The problem may be that it is not providing power because there is not sufficient minimum draw on the 5 volt lines. Some power supplies for PC's require a minimum current

I have a 350w computer power supply that I am using for turnout motor control. I bought one of those adapters that plug into the motherboard pigtail and break-out 12v +/- 5v and 3v There are currently

Dale, If the snubber fixed it, why then add the booster? Were you also facing a load problem (i.e. too many locos/lighted cars/accessories)?

I had success using a snubber on one occasion. When I started building my layout I had a DCC bus length approaching 120 feet in length. The bus was 14 gauge solid copper wire (stripped out of

Thanks, Michael. I have seen exactly one instance in my past electronics/physics life where OFHC demonstrably made a difference to something, and that was in a 600 keV proton linac fed with a

I'll answer that: It makes no difference. All copper wire is "oxygen free", because if there is too much oxygen, you can't draw it into wire as it is too brittle. I regularly make

Well, so far, no answer from Ross. From others, an unknown scale 10 miles in length reports no problems, and an N scaler tells me to reduce my gauge and use OFHC copper, and I won't have

The snubbers are only anectoatal solutions based on many factors. Mostly parasitic reactance from using too large of a bus wire over an extended distance. The best advice is to use the smaller gauge