Ken, I have never seen a toggle switch purposely made to make before break. Slide and rotary switches can be made that way. But I have seen multi-pole toggle switches where there is an offset in the t

I certainly does, Ed. Thanks. Isolate both rails between turnouts 1 & 2 and 1 & 3. [easy to do using 4 insulated rail joiners at #1] Wire the entire turnout #1 and the Quarry rails at the point end of

I agree. Post a sketch showing the track layout and things you name so we can mark it up and send more thorough suggestions. But... any loco that stays inside the A-R controlled section while another

Ed, It makes no difference to the original AR unit unless you cause a short circuit on those tracks. Use a separate DPDT switch in concert with the Wye turnout leading to the loco turnaround stub to f

There is no reason that one cannot use an NCE DCC control system with Kato uni-track... including the Kato track switches/turnouts. If it works with DC, it will work with any brand DCC equipment. DonV

Good/Great question, Greg. The answer here makes an important difference in identifying the real issue. If the headlight simply blinks off, motor stops or a sound loco recycles it is an intermittent c

You need to post it as a document/file in the file section. Please use a format that others can easily use. A pdf or word file rather than something from auto-cad or other specialty program. Take a lo

Bob, Sounds like you have the right idea. But 3 boosters feeding 15 circuit breakers + 6 A-R sections sounds like overkill unless you have many operators with poor operating habits. Using separate pla

The wire powering the frog must somehow be powered through a polarity switch or other frog-juicer like mechanism to flip the polarity of the frog to be in concert with the throwbar. It must not be per

---In WiringForDCC@..., <lamont7777@...> wrote : This thread causes concern on my part. I am in the building state of my layout. I have purchased code 83 and code 70 track but no

You are welcome. We are here to help others be successful by giving good advice. DonV

See http://wiringfordcc.com/switches.htm about being DCC friendly. There have been several manufactured turnouts with no gaps to isolate point, closer, frog and frog rails all the way out to the end o

I agree with what the goatfisher says. There is no significant difference between solid and stranded at the DCC frequencies of interest. the less flexible solid will tend to stay in place better and c

Ron, I'm assuming you mistakenly used the words 'control bus' instead of DCC track power bus. If you are monitoring the sub-bus for occupancy detection add a snubber/filter on that bus on the SB5 boos

Monty, I've looked at your plans and... 1. There are no reversing tracks other than the 2 turn-tables. You will need to use them to turn steam locos around to go in the other direction. All other trac

No special considerations required. If you have only one booster there is no issue as there will always be a path for current to flow from rail A of one power district through the decoder and back to

Bernard, Get an NCE PowerCab system. Easiest to use. Ideal for a one operator limited sized layout. You can cope with programming of several locos by fiddling with CV settings 'manually' with the Powe

Richard, 1. did it run OK before but now does not? If that is the case, something broke or an isolating rail gap has closed up or there are wires touching something that is not correct. 2. Does the lo

Blair, The forum does not allow attachments. You must add drawings to the files section. Or you can send it to me directly at my email address. You previously said ..."I purchased the PH-PRO-R it come

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 ca