08-28-2014, 08:16 PM
I went to work on my wiring today. I bought some sticky labels at the $ store and started to label stuff. The file folder labels worked best.
I took one of the terminal strips almost fully apart and put the wires back in. I'd made some really weird connections. The formation is a doble junction with a double slip in the crossing -- may not be needed any more, but it's there. The far track is the return and, of course, has the common rail on the opposite side. I solved the problem originally by making it an X section* about 8 feet long. Everything now works and when I get the wire joints insulated, I can put the top shelves back in.
* see: The X Section -- Simplifier of route cab control by Linn Westcott, MR about 1958.
I took one of the terminal strips almost fully apart and put the wires back in. I'd made some really weird connections. The formation is a doble junction with a double slip in the crossing -- may not be needed any more, but it's there. The far track is the return and, of course, has the common rail on the opposite side. I solved the problem originally by making it an X section* about 8 feet long. Everything now works and when I get the wire joints insulated, I can put the top shelves back in.
* see: The X Section -- Simplifier of route cab control by Linn Westcott, MR about 1958.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.