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Point motor wiring.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:37 am
by Nine Elms
A question for Brian L.
This is more out curiosity. Why do advocated soldering all bus wiring but when it comes to wiring point motors you use terminal blocks?
Best regards
John
Re: Point motor wiring.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:57 pm
by Brian
Soldering should ensure 100% electrical and in the case of DCC, data transfer.
Terminal blocks are for pure ease of connection.
No other reason.
Re: Point motor wiring.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:59 pm
by Steve M
It also makes it easier to remove and replace a faulty point motor.
Re: Point motor wiring.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:57 pm
by Nine Elms
Thank you both for your replies they make sense.
John
Re: Point motor wiring.
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:52 pm
by Stese
I use terminal blocks on all my track feeds... but the final wires are always soldered to the underside of the rails.
Re: Point motor wiring.
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:02 pm
by darkscot
Stese wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:52 pm
I use terminal blocks on all my track feeds... but the final wires are always soldered to the underside of the rails.
I solder to the track and to the bus wire. However, if I started again the would do as above. When you need to relay a section of track for some reason, as I have recently, it would make things easier.