selectorI can't help but wonder at the 'material' used in that small section of rails. Could it be heavily oxidized but not looking the part?
I'm wondering if this is an immediate failure after track laying or a failure after ballasting and/or weathering or time (which I think would be more likely). We've talked a lot about joiners not being a reliable for electrical transmission. It only takes one of the two to fail.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Actually I meant using your meter probes to find where the voltage interuption is. I did that once some years ago with my Harbor Freight meter. Forgot about it until now. I had forgot to solder a feeder. At the time it was a DC layout.
Rich
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I can't help but wonder at the 'material' used in that small section of rails. Could it be heavily oxidized but not looking the part?
Otherwise, Mike has the most sensible assumption, that being that one or both joiners is/are somehow deficient or defective. Soldering both joiners might tidy things up.
You could just redo the rail joiner connection, clean it up, new joiners, and solder that in place, leaving the gap on the other end.
I have a regular little lamp, like what your supposed to put in a buiding, that I have attached 2 leads, with alligator clips. I clip on a lamp, to the tracks, to see if there is any voltage.
Mike.
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Then it is time to drop a pair of feeders from that 3 inch section.
If I may explain myself, I have a degree in civil engineering and practiced for well over 30 years in water resources and sanitary engineering. I graduated from an accredited college without any kind of honors because I almost flunked Intro to Electrical Engineering for Non-EE majors. I got a D, and, to this day, I think the professor took pity on me giving me a D because he knew that I was doing well in my other course work.
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From what I see so far, I would have to agree. Follow with a finger or probe the direction the current would flow and you would see where the current would stop flowing. There will be an obstruction. Either side.
as to defy reality. I pulled out my RRampmeter and measured the voltage around my layout, no more than a 0.1 V drop at the extreme ends of the two busses. There is a 3 inch section of track with joiners on one end from where I have dropped the last set of feeders, and plastic joiners on the other end to create the two power districts, and there is no voltage in that 3 inch section. I assume this means that there is no juice?