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**Hi Allan - **Reading your fine book again....? I have about 170 feet of double track main line, NCE SB3 and two DB5s... NCE likes the cases on these grounded together, I take that as meaning close

John, You should mount your boosters central to the district they power.? Ideally, you want the distance from the endpoint of each track bus to the booster to be 30 feet or less.? Mounting your

Jon, I thought steel was the better connector. Guy argued with me that you need extra feeders for steel because it was a poor conductor. So thanks. I prefer steel.? It has better adhesion. Nickle

My layout is an oval about 4X7. Part of the oval is a staging area. Mine is developed so that 2-3 people can operate. One as the staging person and 1-2 doing operations. Since there will be more than

Mark Westcott, There is another measure of the size of a layout - that's the number of operators running at the same time.? Your PowerCab is fine for a one or possibly even 2 or 3 operators - but

Thanks Alan, By "current point" I mean I am planning to extend the track, at both ends of the point to point.? (The delay is putting up and debugging? perfecting the overhead trolley wire.) The

Allan, Since the SB-5 is a smart booster (with command station inside), I cannot imagine the need for more than one. Wouter [email protected]> wrote:

Hi Mark, There is no hard and fast definition for a small, medium or large layout. I did give some guidelines for these in my book, “DCC and Model Railroading.” Answering the length question is

How does one determine the “length” of a layout when it is a oval? Total run of track (doubled for a 2 track main); or total linear distance from one end to the other? Are the terms “small

Just to add to the discussion.. Yes, nickel silver contains nickel, but it does not contain silver. Nickel silver is an alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc. The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20%

Hi John, If you have two booster outputs tied together, definitely stop that immediately. If you layout is 75 feet long (I do not know what you mean by "current point."), I would break it into two

Hi group, I have a point to point O Scale layout, currently around 40+ feet long, partially converted to DCC.? ?I use a NCE Power Cab, Currently, I have a single power district fed by two 5 amp NCE

See https://www.tcsdcc.com/connectors . You'll need to solder the LEDs at some point with pretty much any solution I'm aware of. Craig Zeni Cary, NC Despatched from my infernal

Thanks Robert. Looking for something less permanent, and definitely without resistors. Something that would allow me to add and remove LEDs as needed. James McNab thehillsline.com

Try here… https://acculites.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=76 Robert Heroux ACCU-LITES, Inc. 12172 RT47 Suite 130 Huntley, IL 60142 Phone: 847.224.7914 NMRA Member #

Does anyone have any recommendations for wiring harnesses/connectors for individual 8mm LEDs? I'd like to avoid soldering feeders directly to the leads to provide the opportunity to swap the LEDs out

Jim, what has this discussion have to do with the use of auto-reversers on this layout.? They are used for switching rail "polarity" so that you don't end up with a short where the track doubles back

Thanks Jim. I have a fairly limited 5’x9’ layout. Figure 8 with two reverse loops (with DCC AR protection). Gives me ability to reverse trains in two directions. My layout is mid-50s N&W steam

Rob, You have balloon tracks in modules 16 and 17.? Everything after the turnouts in module 15 should be part of a reversing section. For more on reversing, see my book, "DCC & Model Railroading",

Hi, Although auto-reverse is fun ... most of the methods for doing it using DCC are, to my eye at least, unsatisfactory because the train doesn't make a nice -gentle- slow to a stop, pause a long