Lighted Bumpers for DCS Signal

Not for those, but I'm using the lighted Lionel bumpers with good effect.

I have Lionel lighted FasTrack bumpers at the end of all of my powered spurs.  I use non-lighted bumpers on the isolated spurs (where unused motive power is stored until needed).  My layout is not especially large, but I've enjoyed very good success with DCS.

I join a small section of 027 track to the end of my atlas track, and I put a PW Lionel lighted bumper on it. It holds steady and does the bulb thing.

Alan

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into the Lionel bumpers. I have also heard about a resistor/filter that can be built to serve the same purpose. I will look into that as well.

Thanks,

Tim C.

I confess I don't understand why you want to draw voltage away with the end siding lights on DCS.

Can someone explain?

Dale Manquen explains it in this thread

https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/3682341344819024

Dale H

The current drain of a single 18-volt bulb is fairly inconsequential if the layout bis wired with properly sized wire. 

Maybe on most common layouts,but a bulb can use 3-5 watts of power depending on the bulb. On a large layout with a lot of dead end sidings this could become an issue if the sidings are not switched off when an engine is idle. On such layouts an engineered filter could be a better option since it can draw less power and do the same job,at least in theory anyway.

Dale H