Hi John; I bet they use insulated frogs! That's an option in HO (Atlas or Peco "Insulfrog"), but not with many HO live frog turnouts nor any commercial scale S turnouts. Once you get used to it (feed power from the point side, put an insulated joiner on the frog rail on the other side, run a feeder to the same rail beyond the insulated joiner, repeat for each turnout) you kinda stop thinking about it.
Ed brings up further issues with DCC and wheel vs. point tolerances. If your short happens as soon as you throw the switch and before anything runs over it, you have the problem I described in the first paragraph above. Pieter E. Roos --- On Mon, 11/14/11, John Albee <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks Peter! actually came from 2 > rail land, never had this issue before...just ugly Atlas > turnouts at $89 apiece and about 3 blocks long on the 7.5 > radius. > > > John A. Albee, Realtor > [email protected] > ------------------------------------ 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/
