Using the Common 'return' buss bar approach with 14-2/w or 12-2/w house wiring (as Dale H. has shown) can star wiring be used effectively or does the return need to be a complete loop with a feeder to the power source?
Thanks
Doug
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If you're talking about DCS wiring you might want to ask on the DCS forum. Personally I can't see a common bus with a star setup. You could use the house wiring and run it from each feeder back to a terminal strip and then mains back to the power. If you are running conventional or TMCC a star setup is not needed.
Ron
Ron
quote:Originally posted by RailfanRon:
If you're talking about DCS wiring you might want to ask on the DCS forum. Personally I can't see a common bus with a star setup. You could use the house wiring and run it from each feeder back to a terminal strip and then mains back to the power. If you are running conventional or TMCC a star setup is not needed.
Ron
Thanks Ron,
No DCS
I may be using the wrong terminology. I was thinking of putting 3 terminal blocks around the layout for a common return for track and accs. and individually tie them back to a main terminal block at my transformers as opposed to wiring the 3 terminal blocks in a circle that would also include the main block at the transformers.
Doug
Doug;
The star system will work the same as a loop system. The loop may need less wire, tho.
The star system will work the same as a loop system. The loop may need less wire, tho.
