Finding and curing a short in peco point.

[smudgeloco]

Hi guys, I had a set of peco finescale code 75 live frog points that had an electrical problem. When I selected for straight though, the points shorted out. If I selected the curved route things were fine.

For the life of me, I could not find the fault, even under a magnifying glass. Then today, I took another look at the problem, and wallah, I found the fault. I thought this might be of interest to you guys, so I post this for your enlightenment.

 

 

 

 

I know I am going to solder wires across from switch rail to stock-rail, which is really replacing the short. But I still had to find where the problem lay.

 

I hope this is of use to someone.

 

Michael.

[mezzoman253]

Hi Michael, Glad you finally found the problem. I'd email Peco to let them know about it, maybe a bad batch. Very unusually though.

 

Now you can get back to your layout.

 

Regards,

 

Rob

[oldknotty]

Cool there buddy glad you found the problem i knew you would once you had thought on it for a bit you always do :-) Now you can get on with the layout right :-)