Bus Wire and Drops
Howdy Mountain Man,
The Bus Wire is 12AWG with 18AWG Drop Wires.
Howdy Mountain Man,
What gauge is your bus wire?
The Bus Wire is 12AWG with 18AWG Drop Wires.
What gauge is your bus wire?
About rail joiners & soldering.....I noticed a few days ago that the locos stalled when entering one of the spurs in the yard at Portales.
http://forum.zealot.com/t159719/
This is track that's been recently painted & ballasted. I traced the problem to a joiner not doing its electrical duty.... So now I'm going to have to solder the joiner, or put in a feeder wire. I think the wire is the safest bet, as there is probably matte medium in the joiner....wall1wall1wall1:curse:
I'd only bother to solder rail joints between sections of rail that are small. [Less than 1-foot long] Instead of soldering the rail joiner, I prefer to solder a small jumper wire between sections of rail.
Howdy Mountain Man,
The Bus Wire is 12AWG with 18AWG Drop Wires.
The other reason to solder rail joiners is when you need to use multiple pieces of flex track to complete a curve. Putting together 2 pieces of flex track with a rail joiner and trying to curve it tends to result in kinks at the joiner.