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need help with DCC & barrier strips please!
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I have an around the wall layout in a 13'X15' room. The shelf is anywhere from 30" to 18" deep. I've broken the layout into 4 blocks so if there is a short in one it doesn't shut down the whole layout. I come out of my Digitrax DCS100 with 12 ga wire to the PM4-2, from there I use 14 ga wire to a terminal strip and then go to the track with 18 ga. I've had no trouble with "not enough voltage" at any place on the layout. A friend of mine (whose layout was in MR) has his wired on one block and if someone runs up on a switch the wrong way, we all quit running, and this layout is 20'X24'.
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