Erinburgh - Ambitious first layout

[rreckless]

Hi RReckless.Well Done on the progress
Can you tell me about that train your running please.DCC?

I sure can, it's a GWR 158 2 car DMU running DCC Sound Basically this but in GWR livery

[BrettG]

Nice.Whats your thoughts on it?
thanks.

[rreckless]

So far so good, but I've barely used it as it was bought for this layout.

[rreckless]

The outer circuit is down and all the points are joined. Unfortunately I didn't realise my double slips were electrofrog and I don't currently have any insulated rail joiners (I will by the end of the day) so I get a short when I power up

I will hopefully have both circuits fully connected tomorrow. In the mean time, I'm drilling point motor holes and trying to work out polarity switching and unifrog points

[aleopardstail]

The outer circuit is down and all the points are joined. Unfortunately I didn't realise my double slips were electrofrog and I don't currently have any insulated rail joiners (I will by the end of the day) so I get a short when I power up

I will hopefully have both circuits fully connected tomorrow. In the mean time, I'm drilling point motor holes and trying to work out polarity switching and unifrog points

oh nice, electrofrog is interesting if you want them switched other than by the rails, with rails they generally just work (except shorting as you have found). should run a hell of a lot better.

unifrog should be better, actively powering the frog should remove virtually all power issues, usually its either a switch on the point motor you want or a relay, depends what motors you are using

[rreckless]

I've no real idea what I'm doing with electrofrog, currently watching a variety of youtube vids about wiring them with servo point motors. I have microswitches I can use for polarity switching too, which I suspect I will need for the double slips

[rreckless]

Insulating rail joiners FTW. No more shorting. Now need to wire up the outer circuit properly so I can run a train on that too. I will do that today.

[rreckless]

We have 2 running lines on a very temporary bus wire

https://youtube.com/shorts/mNX3QhVhUFA? ... YbMK_x4bln

[Mountain]

That looks nice! How do you make things work on Youtube?

[rreckless]

That looks nice! How do you make things work on Youtube?

I just uploaded it through the YouTube mobile app