03-22-2018, 09:46 AM
Wayne,
I hope you are making progress finding your problem. This may be the opportune moment to consider running a bus and dividing the layout into power districts.
You did good by snipping a few wires and eliminating the upper level from the equation. Now that you are only inspecting half of the layout, see if you can divide that remaining lower level in half, and so on. Each time you do this you reduce the amount of track you have to inspect by 50%. Eventually you will find the culprit. Then when you go to rewire everything a dremel tool (to cut gaps in rails) and simple on/off switches will serve to divide the layout into blocks. In this manner you leave all switches turned on if you wish the whole layout to be live, but gives you the ability to turn on/off sections for troubleshooting.
Dave
I hope you are making progress finding your problem. This may be the opportune moment to consider running a bus and dividing the layout into power districts.
You did good by snipping a few wires and eliminating the upper level from the equation. Now that you are only inspecting half of the layout, see if you can divide that remaining lower level in half, and so on. Each time you do this you reduce the amount of track you have to inspect by 50%. Eventually you will find the culprit. Then when you go to rewire everything a dremel tool (to cut gaps in rails) and simple on/off switches will serve to divide the layout into blocks. In this manner you leave all switches turned on if you wish the whole layout to be live, but gives you the ability to turn on/off sections for troubleshooting.
Dave
-Dave