Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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QUOTE: Originally posted by ebriley Overdurff makes reference to "square sine wave signals". A sine wave is not a square wave and a square wave is not a sine wave. My point is there is no such thing as a "square sine wave signal". Regular housecurrent is a sine wave. A square wave is just what the name implies, a SQUARE wave. When you're taking about DCC don't forget those ever present PACKETS. Just know that it works, and works rather well if you take your time and wire everything carefully and keep your polarities straight.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by claycts Im a little dense on this one. 1. DCC is AC voltage in the rails 2. HO power is DC from the rails 0-12v about 3. There is a AC/DC rectifier IN the decoder to allow the DC motor to run on AC power? I would like to get this into my itty,bitty brain before I start doing the ConEdison things on my MESSterpece. Thank you George P. "no train work till AFTER the car show"[xx(]