Comments on: O Scale Electrical Problem

By: garry fordyce

garry fordyce — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:01:17 +0000

qustion can a ho dc transformer run o scale 2 rail trains

By: David Broad

David Broad — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:24:30 +0000

Just disconnect each track in turn until the fault clears.Better still have isolating switches for each track,
Then reconnect the rest, on be one, if the fault only goes away with no tracks connected check your isolators and maybe take out a section of track each side of the power connectors and see if the fault clears, then add more pieces of track until it clears, I had to do this with my first Hornby Dublo 3 rail layout aged 7 or so as the connector tags used to ride up over the insulation, Happy days (Not)
This is the classic DCC problem, the simple fault that shuts down the entire road. and why iIwont have DCC

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:14:10 +0000

The Z transformers are one transformer with multiple outputs drawn from it. A short on one output will affect all the others.
Try disconnecting one circuit from the transformer at a time to try to isolate the circuit causing the short.

By: Kevin Ching

Kevin Ching — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:46:19 +0000

To avoid this happening try three seperste transformers and controllers one for each track.

By: Bonny McDaniel aka Grannytoot

Bonny McDaniel aka Grannytoot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:11:03 +0000

My best memories are not only of that first train, a Lionel given to my at my sixth Christmas, but watching the steam engines coming through the little town of Colfax, California in the late forties and early fifties. But the biggest thrill was the day the City of San Francisco was set free from her snow bound trip through the Sierras and arrived in Colfax with many exhausted but grateful passengers. We made a trip into town to greet these people and wish them well as they finished their delayed trip.

By: Richard Walter

Richard Walter — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:54:01 +0000

You’re probably overloading the transformer and tripping the circuit breaker.