Need electrical help

WHat board are you using

Probably poor roller contact. What type of trolley is it?

Dale H

The A terminals of the KW are connected to the center rail through the board

 

Another wire from the board is connected to the outside rail of a section of track

What board are you talking about?  For anyone to help, they need to know what board you have hooked up here.

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Bluelinec4, it is a board Dale H made for me.

Dale H, it is a Bowser trolley.

ADCX Rob, I have tried for over an hour to post the pics, when I click on add attachments it tells me " flash required click here for latest version of flash" I have done this and still cannot post pics I get the same message all the time

Post pics to a sharing/hosting site instead(shutterfly, tinypic, etc.), and then use the little "tree" icon to insert the URL of hosted pics into the post.

DM

Email me and I will try to help. way back I think I sent you relays to avoid collision at a crossover?

Dale H

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FREDSTRAINS

I have been trying all afternoon to do that, my computer will not download it!

Here's my set up.

Dale I need an address.

Dave

Dave

It is in my profile

rvdale@comcast.net

Made up 4 relays,2 each should guard each crossover

Described here

http://www.jcstudiosinc.com/Bl...=434&categoryId=

Been a long time since I sent them but I will study my diagrams.

Dale H

The relays shown surely are ignoring any crossing protection.

The OP sounds like he is looking for "station stops" on each loop.  

I suppose they might be wired up so only one loop runs while the other is stopped at the station, but typical "station stops" involve a timer of some type.

  --jcr

Dave -- What is the track you're using? The straights are Gargraves? Are the curves ordinary 027 rail with Gargraves ties? Fastened how? Or . . . ?

(Sorry for wandering off-topic.)

Many thanks, Martin

Martin

The track is all tubular, hand laid with ties I cut and stained. I made templates for setting the ties and glued them with E600 glue.

Dave

Just to update this. I gave the poster a call a while back and we found a few wires crossed when hooked up. After a bit of troubleshooting it seems to work. This was something I made up for his layout years ago designed just for his configuration.  The 4 DPDT relays guards the 2 crossings avoiding collisions. With this design only the outside rails on each approach need be insulated not the center rails. When the turnouts are thrown to the inner loop the train has only 1 section of stopping distance. As soon as the front wheels of the loco touch that track, power is cut to the loop so there is no roller jumping and stopping distance is kept to a minimum.

Dale H