I need a bit of help. If you look, you can see that I have basically 2 mainlines here but currently my entire layout is powered by one transformer. I'm looking to purchase a Z4000 and would like each mainline to have it's own power, especially so that when I have folks over that want to run a conventional train can do so while I still run my Legacy engines. So my question is, how can I isolate them? Do I just need to remove the red wire under the small sections where the switches connect the lines together (see photo)? Or is there something drastic that I'll need to do?
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Let me try to explain a bit more. I'm using Fastrack. I'm just not sure how to separate the power between the lines. Here's a photo of where the isolation would need to occur (in the circled area).
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Pull the red wire off completely and the sections will be isolated. I see 5 places on your layout where this has to be done.
When you are done, just power up the layout and one loop should be dead.
Larry
Pull the red wire off completely and the sections will be isolated. I see 5 places on your layout where this has to be done.
When you are done, just power up the layout and one loop should be dead.
Larry
Thanks Larry, I'll give that a shot.
yep. trainlarry has it. It's that easy. The commons all remain tied together.
Did you use the 1 3/8" at the beginning of the yards? Same concept, but you put a switch, SC-2 or BPC2 in place of the jumper wire to control power to the yards or spurs.
Thanks for your replies. I have another question. Someone mentioned to me that I would have to have a Power Master in order to use a Z-4000 with my Legacy system. Does anyone know anything about that? Currently I just use a GW-180 and it works fine on it's own with Legacy.
The only reason for a PowerMaster is if you wanted to run conventional from your Legacy remote. That "someone" was mistaken.