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DCC Voltage Gremlin Found

Started by roundhouse foreman, January 10, 2017, 02:41:25 PM

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roundhouse foreman

GREMLIN FOUND !!!

Had tried just about everything to get all my loops to run at the same time.
I use a Dynamis wireless and NS track
Did a voltage test on each track and found decreasing values at each.
They are basically concentric loops connected in parallel.
When originally set up as DC I had to make sure the + & - were in the direction of travel.
When I switched to DCC it didn't seem to matter but I did not pay attention to that fact and confused it with the DC polarity requirements and feared "closing the loop the wrong way" and shorting out something because of the square wave AC/DC polarities.
Since the Dymanis trips out at the slightest fault, I ran a second feeder from the inside loop to the outside loop connected it with no polarity intended and it stayed ON and I now have a constant 13.2 Volts on each track by powering the system from both ends as it were.
The track power strips were setup all side to side to each other for what I thought would be minimal line loss, but not to be.
So Close Your Loops and Keep Your Voltage Constant

RHF