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Bus/feeder question
By: jwimsett Date: December 12, 2016, 8:11 am
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Good Morning,
I have a quick question about installing a few feeders to my
son's fastrack layout. Currently I have a track laid out that
spans 8 feet in two directions with a loop in the middle,
similar to this
(HTM) http://pictures.trainz.com/articles/Fastra1.gif
My son likes to have the train go very slow, which tends to turn
into a stop as it gets further away from the transformer. I
added 2 jumpers across the crossover which helped a lot and lead
me to researching power loss etc...and ultimately let me to
this.
I want to put two bus lines coming from the transformer (which
would be in the corner) and run them 25' (down the edge, around
the turn and back through the crossover.) I was planning on
doing two separate parallel bus wires going in either direction
and meeting in the middle. I was planning on using 14AWG for
the bus and 18AWG for the feeders and putting 3 or 4 per bus.
Do you think that would be adequate? I have the suitcase
connectors to connect the feeders, but would be welcome to
something smaller and more streamline as this setup only sits on
the floor during the holidays and the connectors don't fit under
the track.
His train is Frosty the Snowman LionChief
All of the track is fastrack
The transformer is mth z-1000
Thank you
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