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Hi Petermac. Thank you for your support and patience. I do own a Multimeter, but, when I went into Morrisons to purchase a new battery, I didn’t check the sell by date . What a silly billy I am? That is a good idea but no one to go with and when one reaches my age, the girl’s are not after ones body. I will just have to dream of my trains running “to and fro†. Best wishes Kevin
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I have googled “ circuit breakers for model railways “ and it would appear that the mere mention of circuit breakers in the same sentence as model railways results in “ Automation and Computers “ even though with the work of Matt, a Gentleman of this Parish, I now have my laptop back working, I would rather keep my “ Very small Planks/ Modules “ working in the traditional way, manually . So if I can find more information on the subject, that doesn’t include JMRI or any other automation and it doesn’t “ Cost me an Arm and a Leg “ and simplifies the Wiring . Then that could work for me. Best wishes Kevin
PS. There is one thing missing on the plan, wires going to every length of track, necessary for DCC.
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Missing wires? Add as required from the power bus terminal blocks. Thats what the big arrows are for. Run the bus to the ends if you want. Terminal blocks mean no soldering into the bus. Keeps things near and tidy. I showed one terminal for 2 wires, you can easily use one for each wire. Wire one side to power in with jumpers, use the other side for out. As long as you use the right diameter cable a dropper every 6 feet/ 2 meters of straight track is fine, add more for every point.
Circuit breaker. Most trip at more than the NCE PowerCab puts out. I have found two. The NCE unit, car bulb technology, 6 districts, which limit a short to 1amp, which apparently is ok for the control unit, and DCC Specialties, PSX series, which trips the short off at 1.27amp. DCC Concepts sell this. Out of stock at the moment. There are other UK dealers. The Power Cab just resets after a few seconds when shorted, and will self destruct through overheating if allowed to continue.
Both units are around $30 here. £34 in the UK. I am trying the DCC Specialties one, the layout will be one district, they do a combined circuit breaker and autoreverser, which I will probably use for the turntable instead of the Digitrax relay model.
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Err, that is exactly what I suggested. Recess the board and cover it with perspex. Or mount underneath and run fiber optics to a panel. Drill a few holes for ventilation. If you use the DCC Specialities one you can wire in lights, bells, klaxons.
As long as you keep the controls in the middle rather than to the side you will always be doing it the hard way.
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This minor. Major is when you bin the lot out of frustration, or take the sledge hammer to it all. Call it rationalization and and optimization of the space. Sometime down the road you will rue not putting the controls on the side.
One of the reasons you should never fix track permanently until it is tested and working. Even then track can come up and be relaid, wiring redone, new scenery, whatever.
One of the reasons I never glue the top to the base. It can be easily changed for a new one.
Good luck with the rewiring.
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Knew it would get fixed eventually, well done Barry :thumbs
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As it turned out, nothing wrong with the wiring, just a switch that had been fried by an enthusiastic soldering iron!! Luckily, the switch was 2-pole so I was able to simply move the wires to the other contacts and we were good to go.
Kevin's 08 is a lovely thing with sound and slow running - almost had me converted…………. :mrgreen:
I left Kevin contemplating the joys of ballasting before starting on the scenery based around two lovely Noch tunnel mouths he has.
Barry
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Enjoy running trains and have fun with the scenery and buildings.
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At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born :)
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Frying those switches is easily done.
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Kevin the Ipad is definately more convenient but how about re sizing and posting those Photos ? ? ?
Don't worry I'll keep on keeping on bashing you about the bonce till you can do it in your sleep !
For now just enjoy running some locos and thinking about scenery :hmm
Once again thanks for stepping up Barry, much apreciated
Cheers
Matt
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