11-22-2014, 09:04 PM
Faraway:
Peco uses Electrofrog for a turnout with all-rail frogs where the contact is continuous. Insulfrog refers to plastic frogs with the rail ends in them. Electrofrog is the traditional 2-rail system (before 1960), while Insulfrog is more like snap-track.
Insulfrog is a bit more forgiving of wiring shortcuts, while Electrofrog needs insulated rail joiners.
Electrofrog users sometimes find that there are shorts at points when wheels are not properly to standard. (Has also happened with old Shinhara). This can be overcome by isolating the frog and powering it through a switch or one of the frog-juicer electronic modules.
Insulfrog users sometimes find shorts when wheels connect two rails in the frog if they are powered from the far end.
Edit: forgot to say, I've never had an Electrofrog 3-way, so I don't know how it would work without the extra wiring.
Peco uses Electrofrog for a turnout with all-rail frogs where the contact is continuous. Insulfrog refers to plastic frogs with the rail ends in them. Electrofrog is the traditional 2-rail system (before 1960), while Insulfrog is more like snap-track.
Insulfrog is a bit more forgiving of wiring shortcuts, while Electrofrog needs insulated rail joiners.
Electrofrog users sometimes find that there are shorts at points when wheels are not properly to standard. (Has also happened with old Shinhara). This can be overcome by isolating the frog and powering it through a switch or one of the frog-juicer electronic modules.
Insulfrog users sometimes find shorts when wheels connect two rails in the frog if they are powered from the far end.
Edit: forgot to say, I've never had an Electrofrog 3-way, so I don't know how it would work without the extra wiring.
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.