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Great illustration Jason! With me hand building my turnouts, the switch blades are soldered to a copper plated PC board that is also soldered to my stock rails where I don't have to run a wire but because I isolate my frog and cut gaps on the PC Boards past the frog, I do solder small wires to each of the corresponding frog rails to the stock rail. - Jason

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Жыл бұрын

Thanks TTF, its interesting to hear peoples techniques.

Great video Jason, thank you I remember this when I have to replace the points on my layout

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Жыл бұрын

Many Thanks, pleased to hear this has been useful.

Thanks for that Jason 🤙🏻

brilliant mate, thank you so much

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Жыл бұрын

Your welcome, hope it helps.

Great video. I never thought of wiring insulfrog points but will do from now on. My large layout has operated well for over 30 years, but I have had to faf on cleaning the occasional point and trying to find the relative dodgy point amongst over 60 points. Also, I have never been able to work out how you wire electrofrog points. That said I probably have not tried hard enough. Thank you.

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10 ай бұрын

Excellent!, so glad this helped

As I use dpdt relays, I only use the point blades to cover the the points and no future than the end of the point, there after on both routes have rail insulators , relying on the relays to route the power thus. :o) Alan "Out" :o)

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Жыл бұрын

Interesting to hear your method Alan, Thanks

very good explanation thankyou, one of my hornby curve points has caused a problem with some wheels bridging the two rails just after the frog causing frustrating shorts, i have painted one of the rails just after the frog as a temporary fix but your two insulated rail joiners might be the solution, ive been putting off completely removing it due to it being ballasted and in a awkward place thankyou for this video👍

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Жыл бұрын

Cheers Andy, hope this doe s help you in the future. HAve you checked your back to back measurements of axles ? I will do a video on this soon.

I have two main lines, one up and one down. In addition I have two loops/sidings in each direction. I do not have any powered points, they are all manual ; sometimes If Ingave trains sitting in these loops and tge main lines are busy, I have sometimes experience one or two locos creeping. I do not have any isolators on my track and I would assume the us results in the creeping? Would you suggest I put isolating rail joiners at every point? Thanks Jason

@BarnabasJunction

Жыл бұрын

Although not 100% required I would highly recommend it Charlie, I suggest this would CURE the creeping.

Do you wire the three live and three earth wires individually to the bus wire or would you group the 3 wires together to a single connection joined to the bus wire.

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6 ай бұрын

Either way is fine, but personally, to save on connections, I would group them together.