Good afternoon all. I model HO scale and my layout is entirely Unitrack. Power is fed using 10 total feeder tracks evenly spaced throughout the layout. As you may or may not know, Kato feeder tracks are supplied with 24 AWG wire. Having recently added another loco to my fleet, I am now experiencing unexplained shorts. It has been suggested that I am seeing the effects of voltage drop due to insufficient wire gauge. I have a spool of 22 AWG and a spool of 18 AWG in the garage. I know opinions on this are widely varied, but any thoughts on using the 18 as a bus and the 22 as feeders? I run NCE PowerCab with no booster (as yet). Thanks as always!
Jason, northern Colorado
Jason, northern Colorado