I am hoping a more experienced person will be willing to look at my track plan.  I am setting up detection sections which will be used for signaling in the future. I'm not sure if this is correct/accurate when it comes to the sections near the switches.  I wast to be sure before I cut any gaps.  I am not sure if I have too many/not enough or if the sections breaks are to close or far away from the switches. I want to limit my detection sections to 32.  I am using AnyRail.

I am in the last stages of planning my 10' X 10' N-scale layout.  I trying to anticipate issues that could impact the fine tuning of my layout plan.

One issue is soldering the power leads to my track.  I am planning on using Atlas Code 55 track.  I am also planning on using a wiring bus to connect all the leads that I attach to the track.  I expect to attach leads no farther apart than 3 feet.

Hi,

I'd like to use analogue meters on my panel to display the current draw from a booster.  Does anyone have experience doing this?  How inaccurate would it be to use a plain AC ammeter on DCC?   Would I have to resort to a current monitor?   Are there stock circuits around I could just use, or maybe PC boards available for this application?  Seems like someone would have done this by now.   

Thanks,

Bill

I have a question for those with more DCC and electrical/electronic experience then I have.

I have a NCE powercab that I would like to connect to my program track on my modelbench.

Also I have the NCE USB interface I would like to use so that I can download and use JMRI for programming.

And also I would like to set up the Soundtraxx PTB-100 .