Dewey Trogdon posted:Ed---I couldn't find your Email
Are you operating at 18 VAC and 10 AAC per transformer railpower output? If so you might want to consider 15 AAC amp meters so an engine drawing 1.5 to 2 amps or less shows up on the meter scale. On a 0-20 amp analog meter scale you will not see much reveal. Anyway, I have some Shurite analog meters left from back in the early days of the Forum when i imported and sold them. If I can find them I will give you some. How many power districts does your layout have?
The photo below shows the rear and wiring of a of a 3 power district layout's panel (demolished in 2009). The 3 colors are the Hot wires for the 3 districts and white is Common. Top row are volt meters, bottom are ammeters. Voltmeters are wired across the line and ammeters are wired inline. The ammeters require heavier gauge wire since the full load goes through them. In this case each pair of meters is monitoring the load on an 18 volt, 10 amp Power House transformer supplying railpower to a district.
Thank thanks for reply. Yes 18 volt 10 amp, using at current time 180w powerbricks. I have four power blocks. My email address should be in my profile, but it is: ehkempf@verizon.net
