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[quote user="Mastiffdog"] This has got to be the hottest and most confusing topic aside from solving world peace.What I find interesting (and I well might be the only person who does) is that Peco HO Code 83 Insulfrogs ARE Power Routing and the Walthers/Shinohara HO DCC Friendly "Green Label on the Box" Code 83 Turnouts are also insulated frogs but ARE NOT power routing.  So, both brands share the common DEAD frog, but one is power routing, the other is not.I'm no electrical wizard, so this stuff is my worst nightmare - all I want to do is succesfully run my trains without having my locos either short out or stall (I got both that do both, a 2-8-2 steamer that SHORTS, and an Atlas Short wheel base switcher that STALLS - two different kinds of problems).  I sure would like to solve both of these problems so I can enjoy the layout more.  And I may as well read about brain surgery when I refer to the famous "Wiring for DCC".  Sorry, but I find that hard to follow.  This topic is going parallel with the other forum right now as well.  Maybe one day I'll figure out this crazy puzzle...[/quote]I endured a trainset F7 for 20 years that only picked up on the front truck and powered the back truck. It stalled everytime I went through a cheap brass track and switch. Everyone else I knew had trains that glided through switches at any speed.Call me scarred but I prefer to have engines and swithces that work well together. Maybe the last 20 years will be worth the pain of wiring the frogs.
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