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rickwade
[Note - I'm on the front porch right now, so no pictures - sorry] Today I went to the BOB (Big Orange Box) store and bought 44 ft each of 4 colors of 12 ga stranded wire - red, white, black, and green. It only took me a few minutes to fish the bundle through the holes drilled in the bench work sections end plates and supports. My plan is to use the black and green as the "main buss" wires and the red and white wires as the "sub buss" wires. Why this color coding? Because my feeder wires are red & white. Each section will have the ability to have the sub buss wires easily disconnected from the main buss in case of shorts to troubleshoot where the short is on the layout. I was originally going to have toggle switches on each section to isolate the section; however, I figure that this will be very infrequent so I'lll use spade connectors to connect the sub buss wires to the main buss. Hopefully I'll have some pictures in the near future once I make more progress.

Rick

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