I visited a friend of my sister’s last night. He’s just getting started and is having some issues with his small FasTrack layout.
He and his wife bought a set for their grandson; but then it was decided that Grandpop would have room for a nice layout in his basement. He's done a great job with construction and scenery – but wiring not so much.
He has a double oval layout with crossovers on each side; he followed the directions laid out by folks at the Train Station in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He’s got insulated track pieces in the middle of each crossover and two 80w transformers, one for each oval.
The problem: each transformer seems to power the entire layout. Last night we were running one train over the entire layout with one xfrmr. The other one didn’t do anything (even though it was on and the green light wasn’t blinking). Today he said tinkered with the connection wires from the non-working transformer and it started working briefly. But now both transformers are blinking.
I’m trying to help but I’m not proficient in either FasTrack or new transformers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want him to get discouraged.
