autoreverser placement

[jim81147]

Todd , the situation I have would be you bottom crossover drawing and where the rails diverge going into the loop portion is where I have my insulators. My loop is a single track . In the drawing that I posted the different color rails represent , for lack of a better term , the positive and negative rail.

 

[Iron Horseman]

Horseman , I am not sure I follow what you are asking/saying . As I said my grasp of wiring is not that great . The way it is right now , I have insulated joiners on both sides of the crossover on the short loop side . I had planned to go somewhere on the other side of the layout and isolate about a 6 foot section , then put reversers on that isolated section and the loop below the crossover . When I started thinking about it today I had to draw it out to make sure I was thinking correctly and when I did I saw that without the crossover , it appears to me I would need no reversing . Is that correct as you see it ? But I do want a way to change directions on the track , hence the crossover . Thats where I thought that maybe building a block that contained the crossover and some tangent track and putting a reverser on that block might be what I needed . I confuse myself just writing it out

Sorry, December has been hectic to say the least, so I lost track of this thread. Have you gotten this figured out?

1. You are correct with out the crossover you have no need for any reverse units.
2. While there is only 1 physical loop, the crossover electrically creates 2 reversing loops. Which is why I contend you need 8 insulated gaps. Four for each of the loops. That is both rails on the frog side of the turnouts toward the short loop.
3. Only 1 reversing unit should be required.

Ignore the little black line between the rails on the lower right turnout. That was just an oops.