01-10-2011, 10:30 PM
WHoa, hold up there a second. You have some track connected to DCC and some to DC? I would suggest you stop that IMMEDIATELY. If you have properly gapped the rails, if a loco or lighted car or even anythign with ,metals wheels crosses those gaps and accidently conencts the DC and DCC systems together, you are runnign a very real risk of damaging the DCC syste,m or your DC power pack or both, or even the loco.
If you MUST have the capability to use both, then the output of the DCC should go to one side of a DPDT center off toggle, and the DC pack should connect to the other side. The center terminals then feed the rails. This is the onl fullproof way of switch back and forth with no change for the two to interact.
--Randy
If you MUST have the capability to use both, then the output of the DCC should go to one side of a DPDT center off toggle, and the DC pack should connect to the other side. The center terminals then feed the rails. This is the onl fullproof way of switch back and forth with no change for the two to interact.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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