Gary, You can remove the boiler from the frame of your engine. Then you have access to the motor and you can block the motor at the coupling to the drive gear. So, you have an accurate current measure

Rich Old computer CD drives are a good source for motors, but with the emphasis on OLD. Old drives hat good five pole motors, and it seems that these motors were objects for the economizing gurus. In

Steven Thank you for this valuable information. I am heating up the solder iron. Ren�.

This is my first attempt in block detecting. I didn't know that these little gizmos are such sensitive. I wanted a dependable monitoring of the yard tracks when there is a single LED only present, whi

Max The more loops of bus wire there are in the transformer the better is the sensitivity. I had the misassumption that the capacitor needs the equal number of loops. Ren�. [Non-text portions of this

Mark thanks for this multiple answers. There are transformer type detectors. Now the bus wires will be separated, that is, all feeders have to be unsoldered and the bus wires untwisted. Then the capac

If the sensitivity is reduced to stop false positives, the detector is unable to detect a whole train with working engine and lighted caboose! I think the symmetry has to be settled first. Thank you f

Don, Thank you.There is a small 22AWG wire, and I will reduce the windings as you recommend. I found also, that the DCC signal on the tracks is out of symmetry. When measuring the DC volt amount from

George, My layout is controlled with a Digitrax DCS200, I have one engine with a short address. Every time when I operate this oldtimer all other engines which are in the same district have mystical C

Don, Tank you for this message. I have seen this already and tried it out. I have 3 windings of bus wire through the transformer and I tried to quench also 3 windings of wire from the cap through the

Hello, I am new here and have a question in wiring a yard with four parallel tracks that are equipped with block occupancy detectors of the transformer type. The detectors are in the middle of the 21