03-27-2011, 12:15 AM
Hmm - I got the same symptoms as you got when I added jumpers from the stock rails to the closure rails without first removing the underside jumpers between the closure rails and the frog (see electrofrog drawing on the web page below):
http://www.wiringfordcc.com/switches_peco.htm
But you cutting the rails on both sides of the frog (and presumably all the way through the rail without any connection) should have compensated for that.
Are you sure that your short actually happens in the frog of the uppermost turnout, and not e.g. in the crossover between the uppermost turnout and the lowermost turnout (i.e. where the right stock rail from the upper turnout meets the right frog rail from the lowermost turnout) ?
Is there an insulation joiner or a cut somewhere preventing a short here if one turnout is thrown and the other isn't, off to the right of the area shown in the picture?
Smile,
Stein
http://www.wiringfordcc.com/switches_peco.htm
But you cutting the rails on both sides of the frog (and presumably all the way through the rail without any connection) should have compensated for that.
Are you sure that your short actually happens in the frog of the uppermost turnout, and not e.g. in the crossover between the uppermost turnout and the lowermost turnout (i.e. where the right stock rail from the upper turnout meets the right frog rail from the lowermost turnout) ?
Is there an insulation joiner or a cut somewhere preventing a short here if one turnout is thrown and the other isn't, off to the right of the area shown in the picture?
Smile,
Stein