George, All of the NCE decoder 'pulse' the motor - on the Programming Track. I do not know if they do that using POM. A few questions ... 1) You say "running in reverse" ... do you Stop the loco befor

Bill, MTH locos are not "100% DCC Compatible" - they are "DCC Tolerant". Said another way - they are designed for the MTH system and don't fully support DCC (which is different). For this reason I tel

... and just for completeness - don't forget that PSX circuit breakers will not tolerate -any- DC power from either side of the board! - Jim

Rick, Can you 'isolate' (collect) everything in one part of the layout - and then disconnect the track bus to that section of track? Perhaps this would be a good time to add a terminal strip for at le

Steven, The whole idea of using resistance soldering the feeders is to get the contact point (area) between the feeder and the rail hot -quickly- so that the solder melts before the heat travels thru

Nat, As many will tell you - it is strongly recommended that you color code your wiring. And equally important is to document as you go. Don't expect to be able to identify what wire is what - especia

Nat(? - please sign your posts), If it were my layout I'd use PSX circuit breakers instead of the EB1s. They are better for sound locos (or lighted passenger trains). Research the Wago 221 connectors

Tom, Your plan for separating the DCC power bus from the control bus is a good one - but as Alan said it may be "going too far". It's a -very- good idea to not run different buses tightly coupled (suc

Richard ... forgot to clarify ... The slide switch fix does not correct the problem of a cross-over that also has to change polarity of the rails. But it does re-wire the frog. If it is possible you m

Richard, I know a guy who uses DPDT slide switches with a hole drilled in the moving handle. Thru that hole he runs a stiff wire that goes thru a brass tube that connects to the points movement bar. Y

Lou, The keep alives are not meant to cover any significant distance and your loco -will- slow down going across something like an unpowered frog. You may not care (it may be slight enough that you do

Allan, The great part about this is simply the availability of -anything- else in a Unifrog. Peco first announced they would convert their entire line to these a long time ago ... but until now we hav

Allan/all, I think it does not serve new users well if we don't mention the "limitations" of the AR-1 reversers. The AR-1 was designed far too long ago and is not "acceptable" (at least to me) as a ci

Bill, The safest way is to use a 4PDT (4 pole double throw) switch that cuts out either side of the programming track when in programming track mode. The auto switch still allows a loco to creep off t

Ed, The PowerCab is the best programming environment you can have. The QSI V6 decoders are some of the most notorious "problem children". To read the CVs in a V6 decoder I -often- have to go back to t

Hi, Are questions related to wiring about things other than track power (but still for DCC) appropriate for this group. I'm talking about topics like decoder wiring, switch machine wiring, layout ligh

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