{"id":575,"date":"2021-11-04T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:07:27","slug":"the-module-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/04\/the-module-has-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Module Has Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Finally, I have finished all of the wiring for my two end modules (#1 Joint Line Loop and #1A South Denver \u2014 also known as Power Districts 10 &amp; 11), dropped the Modules down from their 45 degree height to zero, or flat, installed the DCC Concepts Alpha Panel (same as a RRamp meter) and wired up the short indicator LED&#8217;s. The next job is to actually run a Loco on the rails to find all of my wiring cock-ups. Then I can connect to the temporary loop on the other side of the Denver Union Terminal tracks and be able to run trains in a loop. This will allow me to speed match all of my Locomotives, while I run them in and look for issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577\" width=\"839\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0564.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><figcaption>Booster #2 Meter Panel at South Denver and the Control Panel waiting to be populated with switches and LED&#8217;s. <br>Note the AML &#8220;Dime for Scale&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579\" width=\"845\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0540.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><figcaption>40 Turnout screw connections on the left and up to 50 track blocks on the right. <br>All waiting to be connected with the switches and LED&#8217;s on the control panel and the NCE Mini Panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0547.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Joint Line and South Denver trackage.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>You only need 2 wires for DCC.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I have finished all of the wiring for my two end modules (#1 Joint Line Loop and #1A South Denver \u2014 also known as Power Districts 10 &amp; 11), dropped the Modules down from their 45 degree height to zero, or flat, installed the DCC Concepts Alpha Panel (same as a RRamp meter) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}