Re: Terminating bus ends
<MBeckemeier@w...> wrote: > Thanks for the info Mike. I had already decided to use a 2 watt, now I'll probably go with the 3 as you used. Thanks for the info. Ken over 90 to C317C104M5U5CA.
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Ken <kenkal@...>
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Re: Terminating bus ends
Regarding the values of the Resistor and Capacitor: I can attest to the resistors getting toasty. I had to install over 90 of them on our club layout. Even the 1 watt resistor got quite hot. I
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Michael Beckemeier
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Re: Reversing section advice
Hello Don Thanks for the informative and very useful response; yes the explanations are excellent. As an electronics tech, everything makes sense. Your comments about relays (and switches) make me
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Blair
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Thinking switches.......
Thank you for your reply,Don.What kind of switches will be best for HO- DCC use.I'm presently using "Fleischmann-Profi"with motor & ballast.Are switches,which have all rails energized,better for this
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hhodina <hhodina@...>
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Re: Terminating bus ends
No offense taken and I agree. As originally stated it could be misinterpreted by someone who is trying to follow the directions written by someone else word for word. But then, I didn't write that.
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Vollrath, Don <dvollrath@...>
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Re: Terminating bus ends
Thanks for the clarification, Brian. Ken
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Ken <kenkal@...>
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Re: Terminating bus ends
Don, please don't take offense as I'm really not trying to be flip here or play on semantics, but if the wording had indeed said one per bus, I wouldn't have asked the question I did. But the wording
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Ken <kenkal@...>
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Re: Reversing section advice
Oops. My option 3 requires 2 A-R units and 1 relay. DonV
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Vollrath, Don <dvollrath@...>
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Re: Reversing section advice
Hello Blair. I see 3 Options: 1. Use a standard A-R unit at loop L as you propose. Use Loy's Toys ARSC at section Y. This unit requires extra rail gaps but can handle trains that are longer than the
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Vollrath, Don <dvollrath@...>
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Reversing section advice
Hi folks I've posted a sketch for a tricky bit of trackwork I have (it's in the files section, called Reversing Sketch.pdf). Here's the accompanying text, and questions. Electrically, A, A', and A"
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Blair
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Re: Terminating bus ends
If someone tells you to put a nozzle at the end of your garden hose, how many nozzles would you need? :-) Technically the words should read "Connect an R/C terminator to each DCC bus run at the end
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Vollrath, Don <dvollrath@...>
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Re: Terminating bus ends
Ken, I can address some of the terminology questions. Some caps are polarized, they have a plus side and a minus side, these are usually marked in VDC (electrolytic and tantalums come to mind). Other
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brianw1138@...
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Re: Accessory Decoder
A accessory decoder usally runs things like signal lights, switches and such.
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Arthur Hammeke
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Terminating bus ends
What should be a no brainer for me, this is frustrating. Maybe I'm really just getting too old for this! The really helpful Wiring For DCC site says: Solution for unterminated bus ends: "The name of
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Ken <kenkal@...>
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Re: Accessory Decoder
Hi The accessory decoder will give an output voltage to power a peco, or similar, points (turnouts) or signal motor. In other words it controls the points and signals according to the commands it
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JOHN <jcebay@...>
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Re: Accessory Decoder
Aaron, There are generaly two classes of decoder, Fixed and mobile; of mobile decoders there are motor control and function decoders. Motor control decoders connect to the locomotive's motor and make
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brianw1138@...
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Re: Club buzzer for DCC short circuit testing
The capacitor is to smooth the rectified (by the bridge rectifier) DCC signal so the realy doesn't make a high pitched buzzing sound. Dale. wrote: how being buzzer
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Dale Gloer
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Re: Accessory Decoder
Thanks for your reply John. Could you explain in greater details what does points and signal means. So is the accessory decoder AND the loco decoder fixed onto the loco? Or is it either one of them?
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Club buzzer for DCC short circuit testing
My question concerns the following page: http://www.wiringfordcc.com/track.htm Under the blue title section "Testing," the diagram of a "Club Buzzer", why is the capacitor needed in the circuit. I can
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blind_pyro1 <blind_pyro@...>
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Re: Accessory Decoder
HI A loco decoder is a small thumbnail size PCB that fits inside and controls your locomotive. An accessory decoder controls items such as points and signals....hope that helps............john
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JOHN <jcebay@...>
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