After a trip to the NMRA MER Convention with
@Ed Kapuscinski , I finished crimping the rest of the 140 powerpoles onto 350' some odd feet of wire. Creating 4 Pairs of Blue, Orange, Brown and Green.
I bought 400' of black 14ga wire from lowes for $35 and then cut it all up. I then spray painted the wire to match the powerpoles.
Blue will be the outside main(Closest to the Edge)
Orange is the Inside main
Brown is the Sidings
Green is accessory bus.
This will allow me to do signalling and detection in the future when the budget allows without rewiring the layout.While also allowing me to divide each side into blocks with the PM42s.
The main 14ga bus will have suitcase connectors with a 14ga wire coming off into a terminal strip, the other side will have 22ga wire from CAT5 cable as the feeder to the track and to the switch machine to power the points.
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All powerpoles crimped and made into pairs.(Used a black sharpie to mark the striped side.)
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First splice made!
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First Section all spliced in.
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After I finished a section I then tested to make sure power was passing to the correct rail.
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Current status,
60% of the mainline switch motors are installed.
All mainline switches are installed
Only small section of track left before the mains are completed.
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