07-18-2012, 12:56 PM
Any luck yet Lester?
You could consider for the future to but bulbs in series with each power section you have. A dead short in one of these sections will make this lightbulb light up, making locating the problem area a lot quicker without having to disconnect a lot of stuff.
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Another thing you might want to do is take your shop vac to the layout and carefully vacuum your tracks. (alternatively, tie a pantyhose over the mouth piece so that nothing disappears of the layout into the vacuum, and you can recover it)
it could be something simple as a small piece of wire strand, or a spring of a Kadee coupler that's jumped and found itself in a bad place causing problems.
Has it been hot in your layout room? there could have been expansion of some track, and if no isolated rail joiners were used, two power sections, might now be touching ?
The above are just a few more tips you could try should you fail to locate it so far.
Good luck,
Koos
You could consider for the future to but bulbs in series with each power section you have. A dead short in one of these sections will make this lightbulb light up, making locating the problem area a lot quicker without having to disconnect a lot of stuff.
NCE makes a dedicated little circuit board for it: See: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ncedcc.com/component/virtuemart/?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=9&category_id=1">http://www.ncedcc.com/component/virtuem ... egory_id=1</a><!-- m -->
Another thing you might want to do is take your shop vac to the layout and carefully vacuum your tracks. (alternatively, tie a pantyhose over the mouth piece so that nothing disappears of the layout into the vacuum, and you can recover it)
it could be something simple as a small piece of wire strand, or a spring of a Kadee coupler that's jumped and found itself in a bad place causing problems.
Has it been hot in your layout room? there could have been expansion of some track, and if no isolated rail joiners were used, two power sections, might now be touching ?
The above are just a few more tips you could try should you fail to locate it so far.
Good luck,
Koos
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