| Last updated on October 14, 2021
After a quick update with Jenny to see how her Walther’s bungalow kit is coming along, David gets to work on electrical projects. Follow along, and you’ll see how he installed feeder wires and added a power bus line under the State Line Route N scale layout.
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I used to use the 2 circuit connectors where ever I could and when I was younger they worked great. But now with some arthritis, some of them are nearly impossible to disconnect. So have replaced some of them with terminal strips where the wires can be removed from a terminal to make a break in the circuits.
Your heading does say ..’wiring for DC’.., but obviously it is to be for DCC. Now i know that DC might be a bit Old Hat, but I’m sure that there are still plenty of modellers using DC, so please don’t forget them.
David – you certainly make it look so easy and neat. Great video on basic wiring and connector selections. Might have to invest in that new-to-me style of trailer connector – nice, compact and simple and combining with the suitcase connectors, clean and neat.
Noted you do not use solid wire for bus wire. Any particular reason – pros and cons?
I don’t know David’s reason, but when you get to working with 14, or even 16 gauge wire it is much easier to get standed wire to go where you want it to than solid.
Should the bus wires be a twisted pair, and if not should the white and red wires be separated by a few inches?
At the frequencies involved, it really doesn’t matter. The way David did it is fine. If you twisted you’d end up with a bunch untwisted sections to hook up the feeders, for no real benefit.