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<p>[quote user="RR_Mel"]</p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="margin-right:9.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Your short is here.</span></div> <div style="margin-right:9.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><img style="width:704px;height:auto;display:inline;" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h2LldkiN2G4/WfeNOZvwzbI/AAAAAAAAMvY/_2cGgEstIcEP_M8yMEmTF9Y2okjeo9q0QCLcBGAs/s1600/Untitled.jpg" alt=" " /> </span></div> <div style="margin-right:9.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Put a gap where your note says Not Gapped and you will clear the short or reverse the wires to the green track.<br /></span></div> <div style="margin-right:9.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Mel</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><img style="display:inline;" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-deu62TRZnL0/WWT9V7iGp7I/AAAAAAAAMFs/s5km3DyQzvIkpWpxvMF-KtIEVTTnOnc4wCLcBGAs/s1600/AC12%2B4244%2B03%2BS.jpg" alt=" " /></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">My Model Railroad    </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/">http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/</a></span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Bakersfield</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, California</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.</span></div> <div style="margin-right:9.0pt;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Pretty sure Mel nailed it.  Except that just a gap wont fix it.  You need to swap the wires or gap and auto reverse.  Locomotive bridging gap will cause short.</p> <p>If you decide to just switch the wires coming into or out of your CB to fix the problem, document in writing what you did somewhere physically attached to the layout so that the incorrect colored feeders dont cause confusion later.</p> <p> </p> <p>Edit: I think you said you fixed it, but the documentation part stands.</p>
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