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Re: Electric power track wiring
« on: August 27, 2020, 05:08:34 pm »
Depending on how the setup is made, to reduce the length of wire and the voltage drop within them:

If your transformer sits in the middle of the trackcircle:
Run your two strand wire in parallel, to each clip directly from the transformer.
(Connecting each as if there was only the one, ending up with three wires in both transformer-connections)

If your transformer sits somewhere outside the trackcircle:
Connect the clip closest to the transformer, as you would with a single connector setup. Then connect the two others from there, to their respective clips.
Make your initial connection the middle one, to keep voltagedrop as low as possible.

Guess it goes without saying, that you must ensure not to short the transformer out, but now i say it anyway...

Use the same colour in each respective connector on the transformer, if the first option is chosen, and for both options the same colour to the same side of every railclip!
Cheers
Jan
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