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Loathar- You don't have to wire your layout in blocks. DCC will run without them. There are three reasons to do this to use block wiring. <br />1. Depending on the size of your layout it might provide a more even distrubution of power. Since it would be done in blocks you would have a whole bunch of short sections to power instead of one big block so there are going to be no areas that power is lower at. This is also helpful if you add boosters. <br /> <br />2. To make trouble shooting easier. Since you have a smaller block if you do have a problem wiring it ie. a short or reversed wire, there will be a smaller amount of wires to check. Take my layout I'm building. it's about 100 plus feet of track, with feeder wires ever 3 feet. I accidently switch polarity of two wires. If I don't do blocks i have about 33 wires to check. If I put in blocks I may only have three wires to check. <br /> <br />3. The last reason is even though you may have all DCC loco's a friend may still be on DC so if he brings his new shiny engine to run it wouldn't work on your layout. Also if you buy a new DC locomotive and want to run it before taking the time to install a decoder you can do this. Som systems will allow you to run a DC loco with your DCC system but a lot are getting rid of this function because it causes to many problems. I use MRC'S prodigy advanced and it doesn't have this feature. <br /> <br />None of these are laws however and there arer different ways to get around them. They are just things to think about while planning your layout. it would be a pain to rewire a layout in Block form once you have finished laying track. Like anything you plan for every problem but once you get working on it the pans change. Don't be discourage and feel free to ask questions and remember this is a hobby it's ok to have fun everyonce in a while <br />Andrew
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