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Trucks shorting on switches?
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I've recently converted to DCC and now have a problem with shorts occuring at (some of) my switches. I've narrowed it down - it seems to happen when the turnout side of the truck of cars are bridging the points of the switch. I'm talking about Atlas remote Snap-Switches, and it causes my controller to stop the train and reset. Very annoying. At high speeds it doesn't affect anything. I never noticed a problem with this with my DC trains. I did notice that reversing the direction of one of the cars that had a higher incedent of occurence helped reduce this. This was a four-wheeled truck on a Bachmann Spectrum PRR car - the rest of the cars in this makeup have six-wheel trucks. I'd of thought 4 vs 6 would have reduced the risk of this shorting? Anyone know what's happening here?
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