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Hi Ken I have a T25M stapler which successfully fires Arrow T25 staples.? Both are made by Arrow.? The T25 staples are "#256" according to the package, and were purchased three weeks ago at a Home

Hi - I have two PSX Circuit Breakers, I’ll call them PSX1 and PSX2. I have an inner loop of track and an outer loop of track. If I have a loco running on a loop, and I intentionally short out the

Please fill me in on where to get cable staples for the T-25M style staplers.? I found some Klein Coax staples but so far nothing else. Best, Ken Harstine Holyoke, MA

Jim However, it seems there is a distinction to be made at times. Some/most block detection devices apparently report false occupation erratically if the block's bus wires DOWNSTREAM of the detector

Joseph, Feel free to ask your newbie wiring questions.? That is what this group is for. Allan Gartner Wiring for DCC

I am a 'hope to learn rather newbie' but I am embarrassed to post/ask question on the group page. Joseph A "Jody" Correro Jr. Mississippi "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by

Kudos to Jim. If what you have is working, don't bother to try to re-twist an existing layout. That was my condition for the layout I dismantled last year. Twenty years, 25-foot runs, no twist and no

Hi, The adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is a good one. Having said?that - if you are doing -new- wiring (even of a small section of an otherwise untwisted and existing layout) then twisting

As I rebuild my layout in a new-to-us home in a different state, I'm getting ready to divide it into four power districts, with four EasyDCC double zone boosters. Auto Reversing outputs from two of

My small N Scale Layout has four (4) Power Runs from an PM42. Each Leg is a Black/Red dual wire run. Off these I attached to Power Feeders to the tracks. I have had no power problems using this

All that about twisting bus wires is probably true. And yet, my medium sized layout is wired with untwisted 18 gauge speaker wire, each each rail of each block separately fed from a central rack with

Agree with puckdropper and Kurt.? In any situation where I think there's a chance one or more buss wires may drift (due to yanking, pulling, whatever), I simply staple the bus wires to adjacent

I do the same as Puckdropper and space connections by an inch or more to keep them from touching Kurt

No. I strip the buss and solder my feeders. Afterwards, I almost never cover the joint, it just doesn't need it. As long as the wires are secure enough they can't touch anything else it's fine.

The twist is the key. Taping two wires without twisting is worse than just two random wires. Thomas DeSoto, TX

Actually, I haven't had any problems ... no runaway locos, no messed up DCC signals. I was simply wondering whether taping wires together might serve as a substitute for twisting. I have far too many

You can make your own twisted cable. Take 50ft of Black and Red wire. Make a knot and secure on end in an vise. Make a knot in the other end. place knot in Hand drill. run drill until desired twist.

Bill, Your bus wires should -either- be twisted or well separated.? The worst thing you can do is to tape them together without twisting them. What happens is that the wires will create an RF signal

But if you look at the nature of the opening, the exposed conductor is at the bottom of a canyon.? DCC voltages will not leap that canyon to conduct to another potential; you'd need to tape both