As long as you have only one system active at a time you will be fine. That means the whole layout has DCC selected, or the whole layout is connected to DC. Make sure the Master Switch is a DPDT Cente

The other issue these turnouts may have is wheel tread bridging at the frogs. May have to use the nail polish trick to prevent shorts. Dick ras1@...

One of our local modellers prints the circuit identification on an Avery lable, applies the lable to the end of the wire, then shrinks a piece of clear heat shrink tube over the lable. Can use colour

Gary All this will be true with the Fast Tracks system, but this discussion started about turnouts, and track, that were built long before Fast Tracks came along. Both situations I described did happe

Guys A very,very high resistant short circuit. Not enough current flow to trip any circuit protection, but enough current to heat the circuit over time and cause damage. I have had leakage through a g

Brent I didn’t think Fast Tracks supplied double sided ties. Our club used double sided for a short while years ago. We had considerable leakage between the top and bottom after we ballasted. We then

Not likely, note that this is "softened" What is needed is steel wire - and music has some "spring" to it.

Our list owner has an excellent website. http://www.WiringForDCC.com

Howard I don’t have access to the unit for a photo. The plug in the socket had 2 diodes and two capacitors, just like most DC adapter plugs. Ran on DC, with lights. We will probably hard wire a DCC so

Thanks Theo Kinda what I figured. Guess we would have to hard wire - the 7 pin stock is not a recognized DCC configuration. Dick Sutcliffe Secretary Dewdney-Alouette Railway Society ras1@...

One of the new members of our club, recently from the UK, brought in a Hornby Pendolino set. The packaging has reference to “Digital” & "NMRA Dcc” as well as NMRA compatible. When placed on a Digitrax

I am installing a 21pin sound decoder in a P2K RDC I have a a TCS 21-HWM connector that has solder pads for adding wires. There are 9 pads are nicely labled with NMRA colours on the pin side, and 3 no

To get both the decoders to operate off the same address you will have to consist them - usually basic (same address)

I bought my directly from Bachrus. http://www.bachrus.com/runningstands.php Dick Sutcliffe General Manager Bradley, Roger & Tidewater Rwy. Cariboo Traction Company

Which brand of command station are you now using? Dick ras1@...

Dan Why not just wire the power pick in parallel, and make both decoders the same address? This would extend the effective wheelbase of the consist, without introducing other complications. Dick Sutcl

Lee On the outlet track to the second booster district have a short, 12”, length powered by booster district one with the polarity matched to the second booster district. Dick Sutcliffe General Manage

Shorten the trains?? Dick ras1@...

Ric We have a similar situation to what you and Jerry describe. When we converted to DCC the same question was asked. The advice was the same. The short section of main track 1 just needs to be a foot

The conventional wisdom is to NOT have the buss form a loop. Break it opposite where the booster connects. Regarding circuit breakers - have the two loops on separate circuit breakers. Perhaps 4 break