Hello, All
Thanks to all who offered feedback to me in my quest to add feeder wires to my Bachman EZ track layout. I’m getting closer to making this happen. I have follow-up question(s) that I hope someone can help with:
I think I will be able to prepare positive and negative bus wires for the underside of the train table. Also, I think I am going to be okay using suitcase connectors and wiring feeder wires off the bus wires. I have the suitcase connectors now…(don’t think I’m ready for a first soldering attempt under the table looking up). My first question has to do with the terminal tracks that I have and how they could fit into this plan. From the Command Center, power goes to a terminal track. This is ‘plug and play’. The only power wire is plugged into the track with a flat plug. Those who know EZ track know that the terminal tracks have a receptacle for that little black plug on both sides of the track. In my application, one side of one terminal track receives the plug…the other side has nothing in it. Could I plug a second plug into the 2nd unused receptacle of the teminal track and have the two wires inside this 2nd power wire connected to the bus wires? That is, would there be power from the terminal track’s 2nd plug receptacle? Bachman sells the ‘short’ red power wire. It has a miniplug on one end and that flat connector on the other. I could buy three and just cut the miniplugs off…retaining the flat plug that attaches to the terminal tracks (I have three terminal tracks on the layout). Would that work? I guess I could buy the power wire from Bachman and attach a second plug to the unused side of the only powered terminal track and buy a (voltmeter?) and see if there’s power coming out of that 2nd wire pair (with sheathing removed…revealing the two wires inside); but if someone knows the answer to this, I could g