Our club (Columbus Area Railroad Club) in Indiana, operates a large HO layout with both DC and DCC. We have several mainlines, with crossovers, and each mainline can separately run either DC or DCC. I

Re: Twisting bus wires-- We have a large HO layout built mostly with 4x8' tables; track bus runs between the tables with 12 conductor nylon connectors. Each connector socket contains two pair of 12 ga

Just for info: Our club, in Columbus, Indiana, is over 25 years old, and has been running both DC and DCC on the same layout for over 20 years. We use DCC detector boards, which we designed and built,

Our club changes out all the .025" wire with .032' wire. makes a big difference.Getting harder to find this stuff!!!!!! Greg Harter

I uploaded the two DC/DCC files after creating a location called DC/DCC. BTW, I do think this is involved with wiring for DCC--to accommodate DC, for what it's worth. Greg Harter

to David McBrayer; Thanks for your detailed instructions. I don't have photos, only wiring schematics, component lists, and diagrams. The process you described will not allow anything but photos. What

DC/DCC detectors to permit layouts to run both: apparently I don't know how to do this. My note to the group went through, but not the schematics, etc. Can somebody help me with this? Greg Harter

oops, forgot the other diagram.

here is the schematic, a components listthe description, a picture, hope this is all you need!

Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 09:28:42 -0500 Subject: Re: [w4dccqa] Allan Gartner's Wiring for DCC Question and Answer Forum - Digest #272 I think there is a simpler solution to this (potential) problem. inst

Our club (25 years+) uses solder for track drops and some track joiners. We have seen a few instances where (unsoldered) track joiners stop conducting electricity. All other connections on the layout

I'm 77, started building my current HO layout in 1978. It will NEVER be 100% finished. Good luck to you, all I've read in response to your email is excellent in my opinion, especially the turnout issu

I trust that the emails I've received mean I'm a current member of the new group. Once I have confirmation, I'll send an email about a shorting problem I have. Thanks. Greg Harter

I'm new to writing on this yahoo group, so bear with me. On running DC and DCC on the same layout: It can be done, without problems, based on our collective experience at the Columbus Area Railroad Cl

What's the alternative when there's not enough room for a tortoise? I have a few places where there's only 1" of room under the track, below the cork and 1/2" plywood. twin coils were the only solutio

You could call Team Digital in Kokomo, IN. Bill Robinson has always been very helpful to me. I have two SMD82s and use them in conjunction with my NCE system. The instructions that come with the unit

As far as I can tell, it's part of my email--as an attachment, down at the bottom of the page. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I've not tried this circuit, but our guru has and it works. If any of you try this, let me know how it goes! I'm just passing all this along, so don't expect expert assistance from me, your humble mes

I can't remember who asked for the delay circuit for starting up a DCC system without the sound locomotives preventing it. The electrical guru (I am a lowly sub-guru) in our club has designed, built,

You may find steam installs easier, unless you install a driver disk for chuff synchronization. Tenders have tons more room than RS-3s, etc. I'm 70, and have been installing in older, 'sentimental' lo