04-26-2012, 07:52 AM
Mark,
I'll get some photos tonight if I'm confusing anybody. I use about 6 inch long 22 gauge because that is what i found at Fry's when i went to get wire, 20 would be fine. The smaller the better for us people who are not as good at soldering
. Then I use approx 16-18 gauge to tie in all the feeders together then attach to the main buss. There may be better ways but this has worked for me, was the way I was introduced to approx 15 years ago by some guys setting up a large DCC layout in CA i was working with. We were using Digitrax and nobody at that time had done a club size setup before. Digitrax suggested every other piece of flex but you depend on rail joiners. After a few problems areas we said screw it and soldered every piece of track and most of the problems went away.
I'll get some photos tonight if I'm confusing anybody. I use about 6 inch long 22 gauge because that is what i found at Fry's when i went to get wire, 20 would be fine. The smaller the better for us people who are not as good at soldering
. Then I use approx 16-18 gauge to tie in all the feeders together then attach to the main buss. There may be better ways but this has worked for me, was the way I was introduced to approx 15 years ago by some guys setting up a large DCC layout in CA i was working with. We were using Digitrax and nobody at that time had done a club size setup before. Digitrax suggested every other piece of flex but you depend on rail joiners. After a few problems areas we said screw it and soldered every piece of track and most of the problems went away.
Wayne Snyder
Creating the Ft Worth Sub - FWWR
Creating the Ft Worth Sub - FWWR