Originally Posted by cjack:
The capacitance at the terminals of my layout is 0.1026uF as I just measured with a good LCR meter. It uses a 1KHz measuring signal. So about .1 microfarad measured with the base hooked up.
The layout is 12 by 14 ft, 3 big loops, 4ea 8 ft sidings, and a yard with say 20 feet of track if you stretched it out. 21 switches, all FasTrack.
I disconnected the base and the layout itself measures 0.0022uF. Not so much.
Seems like most of the hooked up capacitance was the output of the base.