Ah, yee of little faith!
As far as our group is concerned, we have been able to get things
running quiet well since moving to DCC and even since we went half that
way for a couple of years. Our biggest scare was always using our two
crossovers--haven't had any problems in a long time.
When we were straight DC, it seems that we normally started out with
dead shorts. Worse yet we couldn't find a reason for them! We
generally solved the problem by disconnecting one set of those connector
plugs and then things worked--so we just wiped our heads in relief!. We
had made some black boxes with rotaries to route power to cabs--I'm not
certain if they ever worked. After the 'really old guys' refused to
crawl under the layout, I sort of took over--we tossed the 'cab boxes',
we got rid of the 'control lines' that paralleled the power lines. Now
we have just four wires, two for each track so the chances of cross
wiring is reduced in those early morning coffee-less setups. Now Peter
Vanvliet has added some electronics for our Y modules that replaced many
dpdt switches, allowing generally smooth running trains. Fingers are
now crossed for our setup in a couple of weeks.
Bob Werre
On 2/5/13 2:16 PM, dondew228 wrote:
We had command control back then.... it was Don T's or Don D's brains!
The many hours I spent under modules because the systems did not work
is still a problem today. When people do not wire their modules
correctly.... DCC will not work either.
So nothing has changed really.... except maybe the need for those
magnificent control panels that several people built.
Since I have not yet seen any modular S layouts built with several
visiting modules along with host modules in any of the crazy
configurations we made in those days, I am not convinced that these
days... are any simpler.
And the problem with trying to use different systems (Lenz vs NCE vs
etc) on the same layout makes me believe that we simply replaced one
kind of confusion with another one.
We did not have that problem way back then....
ha ha
Just my 2.75 cents...
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"Bill Lane" wrote:
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> David,
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>
>
> The S-Mod wiring system was designed in the mid 80s well before anything
> digital or command existed. It is rather flexible to have modules
placed in
> any order. The "restrictions" are rather minimal unlike N Trak with
> mandatory track placement standards.
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>
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