The rule is: you can never feed power from the frog end. If there is a power feeder to the siding, you need a gap between the frog and where the feeder wire supplies the rail for the siding.
-Michael Eldridge -Current project: stalled (1) I have to do some actual work to make some money to support my habi...I mean hobby, (2) I broke yet another pair of MicroMark "spike holding" pliers. Have to wait until Monday to lay more rail. --- In [email protected], ken garber <garber.ken@...> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:40 PM, John Albee <johnalbee03@...> wrote: > > > HI Bob, > > I'm going to try to get this Shinohara working over the weekend. It is a > > left hand #6 turnout, fed from the point end back about 2 feet, then fed > > again on the left side about 2 feet up the track. I gapped the rail above > > the frog on the "main". Now it works, unless I throw the bar to the main > > then it shorts out. Any help you could give would be much appreciated. > > thanks! > > > > John A. Albee, Realtor > > johnalbee03@... > > > > In my dealings with solid frog turnouts - in any scale - is that the > 'inside' rail (the rail next to the frog) on both paths of the turnout need > to be gapped. This can be done next to the turnout or a foot away or > whereever. The main feed (as you've done) is by the points. Any > additional feeds would be done past the gap(s). > > The location of the gap became a good location for signals. > > The exception is if one of the routes is a stub-end siding - no need to gap > on that track. > > This page may explain or show some things better. And it also has a bit on > using auto bulbs. > > http://www.wiringfordcc.com/switches.htm > > Ken > > > Ken > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
