I have a NCE CP6 with 1amp bulbs and 1.75 amp bulbs but this device only breaks 1 leg of the input without cutting traces. What are the ramifications of NOT interupting both legs? I think the NCE electronic C/Bs only break 1 leg as well. I want to use this device for 5 power districts. My system is the NCE Power Pro.
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subman I have a NCE CP6 with 1amp bulbs and 1.75 amp bulbs but this device only breaks 1 leg of the input without cutting traces. What are the ramifications of NOT interupting both legs? I think the NCE electronic C/Bs only break 1 leg as well. I want to use this device for 5 power districts. My system is the NCE Power Pro.
Not a problem.Many use this device. Some use a 1156 or 1157 bulb in series with one buss lead.
Rich
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Breaking only one power leg is normal. This is the way house wiring is done. You should not have a problem with it.
The key is to designate one of your bus wires as common (Usually the black or white wire), and keep that common throughout your whole layout bus wiring scheme. Then the other wire (red) would be used to provide the sub district power through the circuit breakers or light bulbs.
This would hold true for any DCC system, regardless of manufacturer.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.