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Hi Ken! You asked: be If the decoder is properly wired, not under rated for the load, and does not take a dip in the "very realistic lake", chances are that only a motor failure could take out a

Exactly, Bob! While I'm really, really new (as in weeks) to DCC and not an electrical guru at all, I have read and heard so much about the crying fear of decoders being blown because there is a short.

No First!!! A fuse does not protect the item being powered. It protects the power supply. If your decoder shorts out, burns up or melts and draws the maximum amout of current your supply can provide,

Fuses react much too slowly to offer protection to the dainty components inside a decoder. DonV

don't think they will fit in scales lower than O zekda99 --- rotortips <Rotortips@...> wrote: --------------------------------- Has anyone tried to use a thermal circuit breaker or 1 Amp fuse

Has anyone tried to use a thermal circuit breaker or 1 Amp fuse between an engine pick-up wire and the decoder to protect the decoder from short circuits? Rotortips

Thanks for the reply, Allan. I appreciate your time and expertise! The switch itself is properly wired, and I even added the jumper wires for the point rails like you suggested. And I understand which

Hello Everybody. I am in the middle of planning a new layout. My layout has been DCC controlled using an older Digitrax Empire Builder system. However now that I am expanding I have many many

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Hi jeffln55 You have to wire up a DCC layout the same as a DC layout, with all the relevant plastic rail joiners where there is a possibility of a short, just like any layout. You don't have to wire

Hi well are no plastic rail joiners needed to run DDC powered Locos. So no blocks correct? Now all that is needed is the decoder added and run correct. Thanks this will be a new layout so wiring is

Hi asterrymc 12 volt lamps are ok for loco headlights when operated on DC due the headlight only illuminates dimly when going slow and bright when going faster. This also applies with constant

Dave, I'd like to answer your question, but I haven't seen one of these turnouts yet. Even if I had, it would be hard to describe in words. I'll try to see one at my local hobby shop the next time I

My first attempt at installing a DCC decoder in an old style Life-Like GP18 (N scale) took much longer than I thought and with perseverance I succeeded. The loco ran smoothly and the decoder functions

Brian, as my branch line is really a preserved line with a main line connection, engines crossing from main to branch will not be an every day occurrence,so Iam prepared to put up with the two

David, There is one thing I assumed. Can the Lenz Compact be connected as a booster? Can you plug the command bus from the Lenz 100 into the Compact? If you don't know this, you'll have to check on

Let me know if you have trouble when you actually hook it all up.

David, It isn't strictly necessary to get an Accurate voltage reading (within a few percent), although that is certainly possible. If the rails are out of polarity, any AC meter will read something,

If I understand your question correctly, Yes, the branch should have bus wires seperate from the rest of the layout; feeding the output of two boosters into each other is bad. Just be sure there is no

Thank you Brian for your help, very usefull this group,thanks again.Dave.