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[quote user="rettop"]I'm wondering if capacitors can be added to the turntable to eliminate this problem? I think this could work as the "gap time" is very short.[/quote] Not easily.  The power is brought up only through the center bolster of the turn table.  This would require dissassbly of the bridge (waranty voiding).  You would have to disconnect the wires from the track and route them to the capacitors.   The reason for the gap is so you dont dead short at the exit of the turntable (also why there is a no track area on the drawing).  It is a manual reversing circuit.  I suspect that if you were to keep the tracks live with a capacitor, you would end up with a momentary short circuit when the power reconnects.  This will have the same result as before, execpt your command station shuts down.  I dont know if you can install keep alives in BLI decoders.
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