Ken, If i am understanding what you wrote I should be OK. Currently my PSX and AR Boards are daisy chained directly from my Command station al all centrally located. From each PSX or AR (only 2) board

I just read Allan's column in MRR sept. I am gald I did. What blow to my plans. Now I have a cunundrum. I have laid all my track. I am using DCC specialties PSX, PSX-AR and Frog -ARs. I also planned t

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Steve, Thanks. I did not think about going all the way through the layout base. But I do have 1 inch of foam plus 1/2 inch of ply. I did struggle a little with feeder wires. even with using a piece of

I started this thread looking for a good product that would improve the point contact on turnouts. It has gone beyond that and become as much about track cleaning products. This is a subject that cert

Added my drawing to Photo section. Mofified Peco Turnout. Thanks.

Thanks All Some good advice. I think the most reliable fix will be to modify my turnouts in place. All my turnouts are Peco. With the exception of a few Unifrogs, all are Electrofrog and wired to DCC

Folks, I have exhausted my options on My N scale Peco electrofrog turnout issues. It seems to be related to reliable contact of the point rails to the stock rail. even after cleaning where the points

This my be a dumb question. I am putting feeders on every section of track. Can I I also put feeders on stock rails of my turnouts? Perry

I posted a problem I was having with Locos stalling on turnouts, in particular a cross over. After a lot of trouble shooting I discovered the AR does not always swicth the polarity when the switch mov

Don, Thanks for the reply. I have not heard of the punch idea. May be worth a try. I have my RR broken into power districts protected by DCC Specialties PSX boards. They are not indicating a short. at

Folks, I have have a cross over using Peco electro frog turnouts in N scale. I am running DCC. I have DCC specialties Frog AR controlling power to all my frogs. I use Tortoise switch machines for move

Allan, Thanks much. Now that I put my eyeballs on a diagram via a YouTube video, it is much clearer to me. I need to create a test track for myself and I will be good once I wire up my test track and

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Please disregard my last post. I just found you tube video from an Aussie modeler and Now I can see it. Perry

Bill and Allan. Maybe I missed something. Can I run a separate signal bus that a block detector will see? And not have to cut my power buss.

I am not quite wrapping my head around how to create a block within a power district. I have a drop on every section of track that is attached to my buss. I did use Vampire connectors for this. Each p

All of my Circuit breakers are centrally located. a buss line runs from each circuit breaker/AR. I have a main line, and a secondary line on the same circuit breaker. I would want to put 2 blocks for

I have a N scale DCC layout. I have power districts controlled by DCC specialties circuit breakers. I am thinking about adding signaling. At first I considered using IR. Primarily because my power dis

Loyd, Right out of the box the Kato Turntable can be used with DCC. Stream line back shop has a wiring diagram I will try to attach the PDF. All you need is 1 Auto reverse of your choice. You will use