@Mixed Freight posted:I believe that full loop buss wiring works great with anything and everything, EXCEPT.............. MTH's DCS, where dead-end buss wiring (a.k.a. "Star" wiring) is recommended.
This based on a lot of reading I have done. Admittedly, I don't have any experience with Lionel's or MTH's digital systems. I do have plenty of first hand experience with conventional and DCC systems, where absolutely NO problems are experienced with full-loop buss wiring, that I am aware of.
You refer to Star Wiring as "dead End" buss wiring. So, wouldn't running a set or two of "dead end" buss wires, capped at their ends, to the ends of the layout and making drops from each block along the way be the same as having long runs of wire drops from each block BACK to a central terminal port? I would think that having more long runs of wire used in the "Star Wiring" diagrams I've seen would leave more chance for there to be an issue with signal.
