[TonyDaly]

Hello Everybody.
I have just read this technical discussion & I have to say if I went as deep into the DCC subject as some here I would run for the hills as they say.
To DCC I am a newbie. I am just back to Railway Modelling after many years out of the hobby. If I didn't know better & took notice of all the deep discussion here then I wouldn't take up DCC in a million years.
I don't need to know the in's & out's of why something works, I just need it to work. When my layout is ready for DCC wiring I will take a practical route to doing it. I will use a Radial form of Power bus & I will twist the bus wires & terminate them as described. Not because I understand how it all works but because it is said by many with more knowledge than I to be the correct way. If I can't get it right I will ask & hopefully someone will give me a practical answer to my problems. I have a general knowledge of DCC but I am no "Expert"
By all means continue the deep discussion but you will have left me & many more "Railway" modellers far behind.
Don't frighten people off by being too technical. Sometimes a simple picture is better than a volume of knowledge.

Regards.
Tony Daly.
Southern Ireland.

 

[TonyDaly]

QUOTE (Sol @ 19 Feb 2008, 08:47) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Poliss, if new DCC modellers have trouble understanding 'bus' & "radial', etc, then they would be better off purchasing a basic book on DCC such as the one by Ian Morton - Aspects of Modelling - Digital Command Control.
It is aimed at the newcomer to the hobby & I even purchased one last month when I converted to DCC even though I have been exposed to it for about 2 years.

An excellent book. I have a copy myself & found it very helpful. Great reading for a newcomer.
Regards.
Tony Daly.

 

[TonyDaly]

Hi Richard.

Can the end of your bus wires be connected directly to the track or do you need to end them in a terminal block ? If connected directly to the track,you wouldn't be able to fit stubbers or does that matter ?

 

[TonyDaly]

QUOTE (Richard Johnson @ 17 Jun 2008, 12:26) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>***Tony, by definition a bus goes under the layout and is connected to the track at many places. If it is simply one pair of wires to the track and they are short, its not a bus really - just track connections. In this case I'd connect it across the two rails at the point furthest from the two track power wires.

If yours is a true bus with droppers from the rails and you simply also connected the bus to the track at the very end, then simply add the suppression/termination across the two bus wires close to the end - the benefit will still happen.

regards

Richard
DCCconcepts

Thanks Richard. Was just wondering.