DCS and wiring for a large scale layout

Chris DOGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

HI fellas, I have been thinking of the best way to keep power consistent on my 2 outer mains. I am using Realtrax solid rail 072 curves. I could measure the distance of circle. I am using 100 watt z1000 bricks for the 2 fixed channels to these mains. do you run power from TIU to a couple of Bus strips and then run leads to the track every so many feet to a lockon? Use 14 guage stranded wire?

I have heard of a star shape pattern also used. no idea what this entails.

I used to run like 2 wire leads from TIU to the real-trax lockons and that was fine for the smaller 4x8 or 4x10 layout.

The outer loops will be 16x16 approximately

any help is appreciated!

Chris

12/5/191:27 PM

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