cnwdon posted:Thank you. The time you invest in helping educate us is deeply appreciated. Assuming I get a scope and learn to use it for this limited application, what I am drawing from your comments is this:
Measure the waveforms at various track locations with a locomotive nearby on that track, for V amplitude and “crispness”, and look at actual loco performance and DCS remote signal ‘strength’. If the combination suggests it, cut a mainline into two (or more) TIU channels rather than just blocks on one channel, to reduce capacitance per channel. Am I following your thinking correctly?
Yup that's how we did it basically. There are other small tricks you can do with wiring using sections of twisted and non-twisted wire to cancel capacitance (link for people who might care), but in general we just try to keep everything well distributed among the 20 TIU channels (5 of them).
