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    Time to try to cure the dead frogs in the Broadtemple goods yard. Just treating the three way point as two separate points has its problems.
     
    The DCC Concepts website pointed me in the right direction for wiring 3 way Peco points  with 2 Cobalts  All wiring duly corrected   But one of the Cobalts is not moving  It is a Mark 1 and therefore about 8 years old  suspect it needs replacing  
     



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    Electrics

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    I cut my DCC teeth using Digitrax. Much of the basic kit was bought on various trips to the USA. I like the system with its two control nobs on each handset and 5amps which allows power to spare for the sound decoders I wanted. I use a DS100 with a DB150 as a booster
    I was an early purchaser of Cobalt point motors and found a few troublesome. But DCC Concepts have been very supportive. Their latest Cobalt IP is great and saves the wiring involved with separate stationery decoders. The photo shows the Digitrax 64s I use for the older Cobalts.

    The aim is to move all the control equipment off the baseboards.
     
    I have recently bought a couple of Cobalt SS surface mounting point motors and they also seem very good.
    I did consider the MERG route and although I admire their work I do not think I am quite up to grasping the intricacies!
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    The basic design is a double track continuous run (LSWR/SR mainline to the West) meeting the S&D The latter has terminus platforms and the former through platforms. The S&D climbs on partly hidden tracks until it emerges on a viaduct which leads to a raised cassette fiddle yard.
    After various experiments with different gradients I decided to aim for 1:50.
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