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Kato Unitrack power connection

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Kato Unitrack power connection
Posted by Jonas Grumby on Saturday, December 2, 2017 8:51 AM

How do you hook up Unitrack to a power supply? I don’t see any special track or clip available anywhere. I saw in a description of the track that it uses a “unit joiner” but I searched for that and didn’t find anything. Thanks. 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 2, 2017 9:04 AM

Kato has special Unijoiners with wire leads attached to them for hooking the track up to a power pack.

Part # is 24 818

Use them as a replacement for the original joiners at any location.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, December 2, 2017 9:36 AM

Jonas Grumby
How do you hook up Unitrack to a power supply?

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I use Kato UniTrack in HO scale. They make a power feeder track. It is part number 2-151. The N scale version is 20-041.

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They also make an adapter to go from their plug to the terminal on my MRC Control Master XI power pack.

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If you use Kato's power pack, you do not need the adapter.

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I love plug-n-play pieces.

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-Kevin

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Living the dream.

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Posted by Jonas Grumby on Saturday, December 2, 2017 12:09 PM

Thanks. I see the feeder tracks now.

20-041 is the single feeder track for N gauge

20-042 is a double feeder with "concrete ties"

20-049 is a double feeder with "concrete slab"

20-049 and 24-843 don't come up in a search of the Kato USA online parts catalog but they are available.

The 24-818 looks nice because you can attach it to any track rather than fitting the feeder track into your layout.

Would I really need 24-843? Couldn't I just cut the plug off the transformer end of the feeder cable?

I'm not planning to use a Kato power supply.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 2, 2017 12:11 PM

That´s what I did.

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Posted by Jonas Grumby on Saturday, December 2, 2017 1:36 PM

Thanks everybody. I bought 12 pieces of the 15" radius 30 degree track to make a full circle, and the UniJoiner so I can at least test my locomotive when it arrives.

(Unfortunately) I bought the Kato FEF-3 Excursion Edition. I think it's especially good looking but requires a minimum 15" turn radius on Viaduct, so you'll need a good size layout if you want to do anything fancy, especially if you want to pull the 2 water tenders and the 7 piece excursion car set.

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