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Planning to use the DCC power to build some electronics into various bits of rolling stock and I have a basic question perhaps some of you can help with...
When no control signals are present, am I right in assuming that the voltage applied to the rails has an alternating square waveform ... and if so what is its frequency ... is it simply the 50 Hz of the mains or something else ?
Then assuming that to be so, are the control signals synchronised to occur always at some fixed point in a power cycle ... such as the first positive rise ? In other words there must be some way of ensuring that control signals are not interrupted by power transitions.
Sorry spent a couple of hours on various websites and can't find this info anywhere.
Thanks
TimP
When no control signals are present, am I right in assuming that the voltage applied to the rails has an alternating square waveform ... and if so what is its frequency ... is it simply the 50 Hz of the mains or something else ?
Then assuming that to be so, are the control signals synchronised to occur always at some fixed point in a power cycle ... such as the first positive rise ? In other words there must be some way of ensuring that control signals are not interrupted by power transitions.
Sorry spent a couple of hours on various websites and can't find this info anywhere.
Thanks
TimP