Gentlemen,
Marty Fitzhenry gives great TMCC/DCS advise and I applied his advise some time back to my DCS/Legacy layouts. In reality both my outside rails on my FasTrack multi level layout are Legacy wired, I split the wire coming from the Legacy Base, run a drop directly to the left FT outside rail, not used by the DCS, and because I also run DCS, I connect a Legacy wire to all the out, Black Channel DCS terminals, this sends a Legacy signal on both outside rails of my FasTrack, and my Legacy engines work really really well, with the strong Legacy signal. Because the Legacy and DCS run on a completely different engineering principle this works out real well, however I have often wondered if the ground plane, of the DCS is some how effected, because of running the legacy wire that actually connects both rails, back at the Legacy Base. So far I have seen no adverse effects from this DCS/Legacy signal join, if anything both DCS & Legacy seem to work even better connected in this manner, especially the Legacy. So far Marty's wiring technique has worked like a million bucks, on my FT DCS/Legacy layout.
PCRR/Dave
