TrainsRMe1 I'm running a track to a lower level staging that is a reversal loop, I 'm using a Digitrax AR1 for the loop
I'm running a track to a lower level staging that is a reversal loop, I 'm using a Digitrax AR1 for the loop
TrainsRMe1, are you using a single pair of bus wires? Or do you have one or more sub-buses?
Rich
Alton Junction
TrainsRMe1Now I have noticed there are two types of gauge wire for my bus, hmmm I wonder if that could be the problem.????
That would not be the cause of a short.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddy TrainsRMe1 Now I have noticed there are two types of gauge wire for my bus, hmmm I wonder if that could be the problem.???? That would not be the cause of a short.
TrainsRMe1 Now I have noticed there are two types of gauge wire for my bus, hmmm I wonder if that could be the problem.????
I'm using the same bus, I also have insulated rail joiners at the entry of the reversal loop along with he Digitrax AR1.
TrainsRMe1 I'm using the same bus, I also have insulated rail joiners at the entry of the reversal loop along with he Digitrax AR1.
Is there any equipment on the track? I had a miserable time a few years ago trying to find a wiring problem before I realized an old frt car with metal wheels had bad insulation on one wheel.
wgc53217Is there any equipment on the track?
How would that account for the OP's need to "reverse the bus wires" ?
No one has shed any clarity on the track plan that was posted so it's not just my old eyes. All we can say is mysterious is an appropriate title for the thread.
Do You have insulated rail joiners at the exit of reversal loop also? They are needed to completely isolate the reversing loop........
Good Luck!
Frank
I'm happy to announce that my problem has been solved, I just ran a better bus wire through out the whole layout, my reversal loop with the help from Rich, will operate better also, thanks again Rich!
TrainsRMe1 I'm happy to announce that my problem has been solved, I just ran a better bus wire through out the whole layout, my reversal loop with the help from Rich, will operate better also, thanks again Rich!
TrainsRMe1 Time to pay it forward. I don't mean that in a condescending sense, but many of us, perhaps nearly all of us come to the forum to learn.
You certainly don't owe any of us anything, maybe Rich, but certainly not me. Help the next guy who comes along and has reversed the bus to get his layout to run. We can't argue with a "better bus" but what does that mean and what was the root of your problem?
Well, unless the old bus was something like telephone wire and the new bus is more like #14, there must have been a flipped connection in there somewhere.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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You have to have a bullet proof bus wire system in order to have a great operating railroad, in which I didn't, the short was from some old tattered, poorly souderd wire, the bare wire (that's right) bare wire caused the short!! So to find the problem, the best way was to do the process of elimination, and it worked!!
Thanks for getting back to us.
Some people actually use bare wire for their bus. It doesn't sound like something that I should do. Murphy never sleeps.
I had a busy week, from work to getting the family together during the eclipse, and about the eclipse, all I have to say is ......Wow! But now anyway, I have a strong bus to work for me !!