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#1
HO / Re: Wiring troubles
September 03, 2008, 12:30:16 PM
should i take out all my rail joiners and solder the track together?
#2
HO / Re: Wiring troubles
September 03, 2008, 12:27:10 PM
I got 1 of those cold soldering things and soldered wires to teh track and drilled holes through the base of the roundhouse, just gonna be hard to cover the wires with ground n stuff when i get to the point. (the way i happend to solder it)
#3
HO / Wiring troubles
August 29, 2008, 06:17:26 PM
I recently purchased a atlas ho-roundhouse (item #709) it work great with the atlas turntable.
1 Problem! there is no way to wire the 3 roundhouse stalls!
i think im gonna haft to solder wires to the sides of the rails only problem is i gotta get a soldering iron and figure out how it works. anyone know another way to wire the stalls?
#4
HO / Re: Dual Locomotives
August 12, 2008, 08:16:34 AM
Put your slightly faster locomotive ahead of the one that may be slightly slower
#5
HO / Re: Automatically running a train set (dual cab)
August 11, 2008, 06:29:32 PM
well when runnning 2 engines at once i like to have 1 going around the circle and then just messing around with 1 like loading/unloading freight but even so i like to have alot of options so the 2 engines are never on the same power block. cant hurt having a few extra blocks.

New table is built - here a picture (colors are a bit messed up)
#6
HO / Re: Gandy Dancer?
August 10, 2008, 08:31:24 PM
This might not be the same for your engine but whe  i bought a new diesel engine by athearn when i put it on the track it did hum a bit but didn't move, but after leaving the power to the track on after 1-2 minutes it started moving, hope that helps
#7
HO / Re: Automatically running a train set (dual cab)
August 10, 2008, 04:03:08 PM
sorry about the double post.
What you see is a wooden frame i built because the table isnt 4x8, its about 2.5x6 roughly. the table is plastic with some metal plates under it (it's a old table) you can actually see a bit of the metal legs in the picture.

I beginning to think it'll be easier if i jsut build a 4x8 table
I have free time so sometime tomorrow my table will be build, ill show a picture of it when its done
#8
HO / Re: What piece is this
August 10, 2008, 02:48:04 PM
if its ez-track a 60 degree is only 2 or 3" and 30 degree is like 9 or something so its a big size difference
#9
HO / Re: The way to lay wires?
August 10, 2008, 01:56:14 PM
you can see the gyprock in this picture

I have free time so im gonna make a new table, sometime tomorrow my table will be build, ill show a picture of it when its done



EDIT

New table is built - heres a picture (colors are a bit messed up) i did put a thin 4x8 sheet of what i believe is "presswood"? (really solid) under the gyprock
#10
HO / Re: Automatically running a train set (dual cab)
August 10, 2008, 01:55:13 PM
this is what i have got done so far:

#11
HO / Re: Automatically running a train set (dual cab)
August 10, 2008, 01:29:34 PM
Thanks jhanecker2, ill haft to see if my hobby shop has any. SteamGene I plan on having it a dc layout (already have 2 dc power packs,) i have a CN diesel road locomotive and santa fe one with a dummy car (these are what i plan on running on the layout) there umm.. regular length? about 8 inches, i will have 12 power blocks (probubly using the common rail system) oh and its a 4x8 layout

I will try to show a photo of layout (made with RTS)

#12
HO / Automatically running a train set (dual cab)
August 09, 2008, 01:18:12 PM
I was wondering if i can automatically run my train set which has 2 engines running at once but only 1 line, ive heard of something that stops another train when theres already 1 on the isolated power block, what is needed for this? is block detectors what does this? does my trains set haft to be dcc?
I am currently planning to make it the common rail system so i can individually control the engines with each power pack (i already know how this works.)
#13
HO / Re: The way to lay wires?
August 09, 2008, 01:16:20 PM
1/2 inch
#14
HO / Re: The way to lay wires?
August 07, 2008, 10:04:48 PM
well i just (with the last 5 mins) cut a groove and suoerglued some wires in the groove and ran them between where 2 track pieces join.
#15
HO / Re: The way to lay wires?
August 07, 2008, 09:51:33 PM
what i was thinking of doing was since i can't drill through my table i would cut small grooves in the gyprock using a utility knife. but where there is a like a line of track in the way out the wires should i run hte wires around or under the track?