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[Specter3]

@GaryHinshaw What are you using for circuit breakers?  I would think there would be one input to the terminal block from the DCS(and I can see those two wires)that is feeding the breakers but there seems to be more. Or are you tapping the backside of it to wire other things? Are you interfacing with the Rpi from a laptop somewhere else?

Thanks!

[GaryHinshaw]

The circuit breakers are DCC Specialties OG-CB's, and the auto-reversers are their cousin, the OG-AR (which has apparently been discontinued -- replaced by the more capable, and more costly, PSX-AR).

Good eyes on the setup.  The 12-row terminal block is ganged into two groups of 6, the top 6 for the white polarity, the bottom 6 for red.  But in a previous setup I used to have a DB150 booster, and the terminal block was tied into 4 groups of 3 rows with half being fed by the command station and half by the booster.  Now the DCS 240 supplies the entire layout, so I tied the 3's together, but never removed the second set of input wires; they're just capped off and dangling, in case I ever need to add a booster again.

On the output: the left side of the strip feeds the 6 OG-CBs that govern the 6 fixed polarity power districts.   (Note that those districts are labelled along the side board.)   There are also 2 sets of outputs coming off the right side that come around the bottom and bypass the OG-CBs.  Those feed the OG-ARs that are distributed around the layout: 1 in the Vortex and the 3 in Bakersfield (seen in the other photo).

[GaryHinshaw]

BTW, the only connections to the RPi are: power, router, and 2 output USB cables.  I have the Pi set up as a dual jmri server: one instance is running as a LoconetOverTCP server, and the other is running as a WiThrottle server.

I connect to the first instance from jmri on my laptop using a LoconetOverTCP connection.  This gives me a wireless connection from the laptop to the layout via the router (which provides a dedicated, offline network for layout use only).  Note that this setup does not require a Digitrax layout; you can use the Loconet architecture as a command bus for stationary decoders, e.g., all the RR-CirKits boards, without having any Digitrax hardware whatsoever (other than a bit of generic Loconet cable).

I connect to the second instance from phone throttles in the usual way.  This segregation has been working very well.