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Wiring Walthers turnouts

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Posted by conrail40 on Saturday, September 4, 2010 5:28 PM

      thank you so much for taking the time to explain that I totally understand what you are saying .Now the sad part   Im a maintenence technician for a large truckstop and spend a great deal of time with my hands in a panel box with a great deal of 3 phase but I ccould just not get my head wrapped around that turnout to save my life. Thanks again

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Posted by maxman on Saturday, September 4, 2010 2:52 PM

conrail40

Alright  lets just put it this way  how would you wire this turnout or can one of you point me to a diagram

 

I guess that I didn't word my reply correctly?Embarrassed

If you are using the Walthers DCC friendly turnouts, they should be internally wired such that the two rails coming from the frog are automatically connected electrically to the correct point rails.  The only part of the turnout that is unpowered would be the frog itself.  So what the wiring diagram that is shown on the BluePoint website is trying to accomplish is to power the frog such that it is electrically powered correctly as the points are thrown from one direction to the other.

Now assuming for simplicities sake that you have the turnout located in a straight piece of track connected to the turnout at the point end, that piece of track would be powered with power feeds anywhere along its length.  This could be 1 inch before the turnout, 1 foot before the turnout, or wherever.  The two stock rails of the turnout are powered by the same power feeds.  In a like manner, the two sections of rail beyond the frog insulators are also powered by the same power feeds.  All the BluePoint wiring diagram is trying to do is power the frog by connecting it to the proper stock rail.  So you have the two wires that drop down from the stock rails and the third wire that drops down from the frog.  The internal switch in the BluePoint device connects the frog with the proper wire drop from the stock rails.

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Posted by conrail40 on Saturday, September 4, 2010 11:21 AM

Alright  lets just put it this way  how would you wire this turnout or can one of you point me to a diagram

 

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Posted by maxman on Saturday, September 4, 2010 10:16 AM

It might be just the way you've worded the question, but I believe that the answer is yes, assuming you ment to say running power from the stock rails to the frog.

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Wiring Walthers turnouts
Posted by conrail40 on Saturday, September 4, 2010 9:17 AM

         Im laying walthers turnouts and Im going to use BluePoint controllers .May I assume that I can use the wiring diagram on bluepoints website of running power to the stock rails and one wire from contact#2 on the controller to the frog. I wont have the Bluepoints here with me for a while just trying to drop my wires so IM not going back and forth from one thing to another.

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