DCC Wire Colour Coding

[Fergmiester]

Just a quick question

Is it safe to assume that Digitrax, Soundtraxx, MRC, Prodigy, etc., go by the same NMRA standard for colour coding their decoder/sound unit wires the same.

If I wanted to solder a 2x4 plug on a decoder pigtail as long as I followed the colour code I shouldn't go wrong, right?

[Anonymous]

Right, they all follow the NMRA color coding standard, at least as far as the basic 8 wires are concerned. They also tend to have the same color coding for the wires beyond the basic 8, though some call the purple wire 'violet'.

[rrinker]

It's an 'engineer' thing. There is no such thing as purple, it's ALWAYS violet - violet being one of the colors of the spectrum, whereas purple is someone else's term, probably the artists [:D]

--Randy

[grayfox1119]

Randy, it sounds like you remember what they taught us years ago in college about the reisistor color code (wires too)!! BBROYGBVGW . How many remember the words? Bad Boys ....................etc, etc. ?

grayfox1119[:I]

[rrinker]

That's the CLEANEST version of I know, and even that is not appropriate to post here.

--Randy

[SteelMonsters]

Having said that, Violet is a bad, bad color.

[grayfox1119]

Tsk, tsk, Violet is such a naughty girl !!!!!