Selective Switch Control From a Powered Frog - Electricity For Model Railroads
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- čas přidán 8. 04. 2024
- Selective power from a powered frog is a slick way to control power to a stub siding or other track design issue. AND it's usually a simple setup.
When using DC or AC on a two-track model railroad a great way to control power to stub sidings and tracks you may want to cut power to when the turnout is closed against movement in the siding is to use the powered frog to power the frog rails, thereby cutting power to the area beyond the turnout when the points are not aligned to that siding or other track. While not something you would normally use on a DCC railroad, it can be a slick way to solve a problem even when using DCC.
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I must be learning because I understood what you were talking about. Thank you for this series. Can't wait for the train show on Sunday.
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Great vidio, like the diagrams. Thanks for the morning coffee...
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Nice to learn this even though i have been converting my locomotives and passenger cars to have keep alives in them.
The best way. But I’m doing everything I can. Too much equipment it change out. And ya just never know. Some little 0-4-0 follows you home.
Another great informative video!
Glad you liked it!
In your drawing, the arrow going to the rail you call point, in Australia it's called switch blade.
Yup. Points. Same thing!
And all this moderately confusing hoopla was part of the reason I decided to convert my fleet of engines to battery/rc. I can run track in any configuration I want. No wiring needed. rail joiners only need to align the rails, conductivity is a moot point. No more cleaning track or wheels. And I can take an engine to other people's layouts and run, no matter what type of system they use. I have a mixture of control systems,,,Airwire, Revolution, RailPro, and my latest 3 conversions have been to Blunami. My latest acquisition is a Bachman 2-6-6-2T Mallet.As far as I know, these engines have been discontinued for about 20 years. This one had never been ran. It was an interesting conversion. I put a 2600 mah battery in each water tank, The on/off/charge switch, charge port, and Blunami board are all under the lift-off hatch. (Where the domes are)
I’ve done RC. It’s great.
In your diagrams you show a thing called a "hell Block". What is that?
Great video as always, I am beginning to understand all of this, slowly, but I'm learning. ;-)
Oops. Heel block. It supports the points
If you do sound DCC, it is generally preferable to have power all the time, otherwise you don't have sound from loco on siding.
Kato, at least for N scale, has turnout which can do power routing (on both directions). On my small N scale layout, as I run only DC, it is very neat, as I didn't need any isolation or track power for the passing loop and the sidings, power is managed by the turnouts!
Yes, true. But if you are running DC You need this. We use both DC and DCC. AC also needs this. But not a lot of switching in AC. Mostly goin round.
The funny thing is, even if I were at the point where I would start running from track power (doing budget DIY G gauge with toy trains on LGB track), my LGB points have got plastic frogs so this isn't even an option.