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Gary POGR Forum Member DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Finished up soldering feeder wires and jumper wires to each piece of Fastrack in a six piece section. Connected all the feeder wires to Barrier Strips, turned on the Z1000 transformer, started dialing up power, and breaker popped. Started troubleshooting, found one hot wire solder joint just touching the connecting common strip causing a short, fixed that, got one more section causing a short, unhooked that section, powered up okay. Filled in that section, powered up all the way, okay, so put a locomotive and tender on the track and ran it, found one bad piece of Fastrack Grade Crossing that was rusted and locomotive tried to stall out every time over it. Put a 10 inch straight in place and it ran fine. Will get a new grade crossing and work on troubleshooting that one section tomorrow to find that short. So glad I tested it on top of the layout first!😁

12/5/2110:50 PM

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