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Wiring / Block question

EE Eric EOGR Forum Member

I have a 10 x 16’ layout that basically6F2EFDAF-6BFB-4C1B-AD6B-BB59B0153CC3 runs around the perimeter of a room in my basement. I have three separate loops of track with sidings. Each loop has a seperate powerhouse and a legacy powermaster. I intend to modify my layout so that i have two rotating bridges on struts to replace having to duck under the layout. It will make a corner of my layout and one of the bridges an “island.” Could i power all three tracks in the corner of the layout with a separate powerhouse and powermaster - and treat it like its own block? Otherwise I could run the wiring through the wall and over the doorway. The backside of the wall is open.  Just an idea…maybe not a good one.

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MH Mellow Hudson MikeOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Eric,

Options:

  1. Inexpensive -- Fish wire around the opening, as you've implied, one set of feeders across the new gap for each loop.
  2. Expensive -- Buy three more PowerHouses and Legacy PowerMasters and connect them to the three now-disconnected sections of track.  Program them so that the new PowerMasters, feeding the corresponding isolated loop sections, each have the same ID as the ones that were previously powering the track that they were formerly attached to.  When you select the Track ID for one of the old loops its new section will also be powered simultaneously, because the ID's for the two PowerMasters for that loop (one for the existing part of loop and one for the newly isolated part of loop) are the same.

Mike

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