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How could I forget about shorts?

Recording the progress of building the Denver’s RailRoads N Scale layout

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How could I forget about shorts?

Well I did. In my defense it has been two years since I last had to spend hours looking for a short, but still! As you can guess I went ahead and wired up all my feeders to the BUS wires and then surprise surprise it no work. Still lacking a memory of shorts I unwired all the feeders and still had a short. After some time with a continuity tester I remembered that the frogs on all Peco Electrofrog turnouts needed to be gapped or insulated. I had done some, but not all. Anyway after using my Dremel cutting wheel to make the missing gaps, all the shorts went away and I can now start again. This time I will test with my RRamp meter after every connection that everything is still OK.

At least I have finished wiring the 40 turnouts to the front of the layout. Now all I have to do is connect a whole load of accessory decoders and design the control panel for the switches and lights. It is already built. Then comes the fun part — coding a NCE Mini Panel.

But first I have to get the track wiring organised and test run some Locos. That should be fun, I hope.

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