https://blog.model-train-help.com/2010/04/no-power-to-track.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-power-to-track Model railroads and model trains Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2010/04/no-power-to-track.html#comment-766 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:17:41 +0000 http://68.171.208.138/~blogmode/2010/04/no-power-to-track.html#comment-766 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.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2010/04/no-power-to-track.html#comment-765 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:22:43 +0000 http://68.171.208.138/~blogmode/2010/04/no-power-to-track.html#comment-765 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.

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