rsn48

I have posted this in another forum with no response so thought I would try here.  Below is a rough track plan already install a few years ago.  I will be starting the reversing loop at the first turnout near the top left corner by the aisle and finishing it at the turnout just above it and slightly to the left.  Yes I know there are other ways I can do this.  My question is this, when I installed the track, each piece was its own block, both ends isolated by styrene, ditto with the turnouts.

I have #14 gauge household wiring underneath as a bus.  I will be using two OR-AR reversing units. Do I need to cut the bus in that area, which I am planning on doing anyway, wiring it up to a PM42 zone circuit breaker.  Does it matter that each track is its own independent block?

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DKRickman

Not sure I understand

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, or what you are asking.

Why are you using two reverse units?  I see only one reverse section.

Are you saying that each physical piece of track (turnouts, flex track, etc.) is a separate block, fed from its own circuit breaker?  That seems a bit excessive.

I don't see the problem.  I would simply cut the track (or bus feeding the sections, if you like) in three places.  One would be to the right of the upper left switch, and the other two would be the ends of the two tracks in the lower left corner, as close to the yard as possible.  Feed both of the parallel tracks in the resulting block from the reverse unit, and everything else form the main bus.  If you want, you could use the circuit breaker on the yard.

Ken Rickman

Danville & Western HO modeler and web historian

http://southern-railway.railfan.net/dw/

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rsn48

When I talk about each track

When I talk about each track being its own block, I mean it in the DC sense.  In DC you might have several pieces of flextrack joined, then isolated forming an electrical block, but using common bus wiring; that's how I use the term here.

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