Future4oo0Any help on the loops now that I added better photos? Thanks for all your help on the WYE
Rich
Alton Junction
Yes, sorry must have overlooked it, a little tired from all the traveling.
Thank you for all your help!
Gaps for DCC are no different than gaps for DC. The difference is that a piece of electronics is swithing polarity.
One thing to remember is that the reverse section (loop or wye) needs to be longer than the longest train. Otherwise, you end up with a train that will reverse the phase as it exits the reverse block while the other end is still entering.
On the wiringfordcc website, a number of the diagrams for wyes show the reverse section on one side of a wye. That only works if the train is shorter than the leg of the wye, not very common. A better arangement is to reverse one tail of the wye. Both wiringfordcc and dccwiki imply that the tail of the wye can't reconnect to the rest of the layout; as long as the tail is long enogh to hold a whole train, the tail will reverse as the train exits the wye.
In the worst case, at least one model of AR (PSX-AR) lets you connect 2 AR blocks together without an intermediate non-reversed block. You just have to adjust the timing so one takes longer to reverse.
Dave Squire