Terminal Rerailer

[Steve_Smith]

I need to know which connection goes to which rail?  I could always take one apart and find out but I fgure it was be easier just to ask here.  Does the right terminal go to the far rail or the closer rail?


Steve

[tomcat623]

do you or anyone you know have a circuit tester?

[Dr EMD]

Circuit tester are called multi-meter

You can find them at WAL-MART (under any brand name).

[Len]

The contacts run completely through the rerailrer. So the contact on one side connects directly to the opposite contact, there is no crossed wiring inside the rerailer. If you pulled the plug off one side and plugged it into the opposite side, without flipping it over, you'd reverse the polarity of the track power.

On a straight rerailer laid on the workbench with the rails perpendiculr to the edge of the bench, and the molded "Bachmann" on the bottom farthest away from the bench edge:

Contacts furtherst from bench edge = left rail
Contacts nearest the bench edge = right rail


I don't have a loose curved rerailer handy, but I suspect it's similar.

And I think you'll find an inexpensive multimeter can be a very handy thing to have around when model railroading.

Len