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Reply to "How Too Fix Problem With Lionel Fastrak With Voltage Drop"

My experience with fast track has not been all that positive especially when I added additional pieces to a complete oval that came with the Harry Potter set I received as a gift some years ago. The original oval worked well enough thought in terms of looks the plastic bed leaves something to be desired. The real problem started when I added additional track and I ran into a couple of problems. In some cases it was difficult to fit some of the pieces snugly together. The result would be voltage drop-off. To go to the lengths some of  the replies above have to go to to get things to work correctly is beyond my patience level, especially when you consider their cost.

I had luckily come into a source of supersnap track (K-Line) and I wound up scrapping all my fasttrack and replacing everything with supersnap (now harder and harder to find). In fact I wound up replacing all the track in my 9' by 12' layout (originally tubular 0-gauge). I have never had voltage dropouts with the supersnap (using mostly 30" and 40" lengths which decrease the number of points where voltage will drop).

John

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

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