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    Digitrax layout problem.

    Okay, thanks, I will try that as well, I probably won't get time during the week for the layout, but all these excellent suggestions from everyone can be attempted this weekend at the regular club meeting. Thanks again.
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    No common running between the command station and the boosters at all, only the loconet cable. I also suspect out of phase, but not sure how reversing the track output wires would solve that, since the polarity is correct at the moment. I also tested all track wiring with ohm meter and the...
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    Thanks to everyone so far for the suggestions that I can try to use to resolve the issue, it's been very frustrating ever since we hooked up the larger command station and boosters, since it ran fine last year on just one Zephyr unit, and only one power district for all three separate parts with...
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    Okay. It happened with a Kato SD40, a BLI Mikado, an Athearn SD70, a Bachmann Mikado, pretty much every model we tried to run through there last night at the club, it's a new layout that we're still trying to debug. Everything works fine when just running in any of the 3 power districts, the...
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    Okay. It happened with a Kato SD40, a BLI Mikado, an Athearn SD70, a Bachmann Mikado, pretty much every model we tried to run through there last night at the club, it's a new layout that we're still trying to debug. Everything works fine when just running in any of the 3 power districts, the...
  6. M

    Digitrax layout problem.

    I will try it next week, willing to try anything to resolve the problem It makes sparks and the locomotive sounds shut down, and the ones that completely stall have the command station beeping about shorted track, so that's all I had to go by on it.
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    I will try it next week, willing to try anything to resolve the problem.
  8. M

    Using a Decoder Buddy

    Should not be a problem, since you can easily correct that now by changing the wires to make it more user friendly for your application.
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    Using a Decoder Buddy

    The Decoder Buddy is a great circuit board for using the 21 pin decoder and allowing far more lighting functions than factory boards. I actually know and am friends with Nick, the inventor and producer of the Decoder Buddy product. I have several models with the original first run Decoder...
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    Digitrax layout problem.

    Hello everyone, we're having an electrical issue on our new club modular layout. Hopefully some of you have had similar issues and can share how to solve the problem. We're using a Digitrax DCS 200 command station and two DB 150 boosters for power. The DCS is wired to main track one, the first...
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    Battery Bluetooth trains?

    It's been done, especially in larger scales, BlueRail, Dead rail society, CVP Airwire and more, the new Soundtraxx Bluenami decoders allow direct control of a model equipped with just such a decoder by iPhone or Android Smartphone. The Bluenami with the direct Bluetooth link from the model to...
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