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No Power To Track
Larry wants advice from readers and asks:
“Try as I may it seems like I can’t get my HO trains to run. I have bought a new power pack, but I don’t seem to have the juice throughout the system. Man its frstrating. I have taken down my layout and then put it up again many times due to family needing the spare bedroom. Maybe that is part of the problem?”
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First, if you are relying strictly on the rail joiners to conduct the electricity and you are assembling and disassembling the layout frequently you are asking for trouble.
Second, be careful how you set the track up. Reversing loops are easy to put in without intending to, and they will short the track out so that nothing runs.
Install a 1156 light bulb in series between the power supply and track if its lights up with nothing on the track you have a short—if it don’t start at the light bulb and work out to the track and rest of the layout as long as the light lights, you have power–if it don’t that a good place to start to find your bad connection
leave the light installed and if you have a short in the future it will tell you. The 1156 will not affect the running on your trains.