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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by gchenier Possibly you have installed a reversing track without insulating rail joiners, or have more than one pair of electrical feeders with wires going to opposite rails. Or wire connections at the power pack terminals are touching each other. Any one of these will cause a short circuit which will indicate on the power pack by activating it's current limiting safety device. [/quote] I reduced my layout to a simle oval with no reversing track and with only one set of turnouts to add a parallel bypass around one of the ends. Nothing fancier than that. Only one set of feeders and triple checked and rewired my feeder connections from the power pack. Removed my older turnouts. Still getting the problem, even without a load on the track. I'm wondering how much affect old parts mixed with new parts has. Also, I know a lot of my old joiners are bent, some too loose, some too tight. Some track is nickle and some is standard (steel? copper?). I can't see how this would cause an overload. I'd think it would just cause poor contact and power flow through affected areas.
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