booster to booster grounding

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george

thanks for the info.

i have another question but will start a new thread.

thanks again

glenn

[Anonymous]

claycts,
Congratulations!
Glad to see you were/are not one of those 'don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up' folks.

Randy has always given good advice, too bad more members do not heed it.

[claycts]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrinker

Now dig up one of Gearge's early posts when he was asking all these question and find the one where I said "pretty soon you'll be answering these questions for others" or something like that. [:D]
You've come a long way! Let this be a lesson to eveyone who thinks it's "too hard" or "I'll never understand all that stuff". No, it's not, and yes, you will.

--Randy

Gee thanks Randy!!
You taught me well[:D][:D]
George P.

[rrinker]

Now dig up one of Gearge's early posts when he was asking all these question and find the one where I said "pretty soon you'll be answering these questions for others" or something like that. [:D]
You've come a long way! Let this be a lesson to eveyone who thinks it's "too hard" or "I'll never understand all that stuff". No, it's not, and yes, you will.

--Randy

[claycts]

Glen IGNORE all that.
All you do is run a GROUND WIRE from Ground of the DCS100 to the GROUND of the DB150. #12awg is plenty. This is a REFERENCE and PHASING ground that takes the laod off the loconet for that job.
1. DO NOT connect the ground to anything from the house, water pipe etc.
2. DO NOT make a loop, not good.
3. DO refernce the owners manual for the DB150 and put a JUMPER from CONF "A" to the GROUND. This tells the DB150 it is the salve not master and it will boot that way.
This is how I have (1) dsc100 and (5) DB150's wired and they work perfect.
IF you have a large layout and your ground run is over 60 ft long you MAY want to use #10 awg solid like I did. (ground run was 78 ft.)
Take Care
George P.

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im expanding to a addtional booster to my layout.
ive got my dsc 100 and im adding a db 150 digitrax.
and i read on a site to ground the cases together which is also in the manual for the system.
but to also disable pin #2 and #5 in the loconet cable between the boosters.
for the reason of ground loops and boosters fighting or corupt data in the network.
has anyone done this? or not?
any problems?
thanks
glenn