This is a problem I have seen posted elsewhere on this forum. Basically, I now have four tracks in my yard that I can turn off to silence and deactivate my DCC sound locomotives (with functioning LEDs to indicate track status, thanks guys who helped me with that). However, when I turn the power on to the track, with some of my larger sound locomotives, the sudden onrush of power and the charging of the sound system capacitors, causes a short on my PSX breaker.
One solution I found is to wire the on-off track power switch before the PSX breaker, but given the design of my layout and the central location of all my PSX breakers, this would be impractical.
Another solution is to add another PSX breaker near the yard tracks I shut down and place the switches before that breaker and then wire the tracks to that breaker. However, I would like to avoid the cost of another breaker and I am not sure how this could be wired so that I could have four toggle switches for the individual tracks.
I am wondering if activating the delay on the PSX breaker for my yard if this would solve this problem. This would involves setting CV55 to 1 and adjusting CV65 to 128. Would this work? Would it give the locomotive enough time to charge up before the PSX detects this as a short?
I had to adjust CV55 on my mainline PSX breaker in the past because it is adjacent to a PSX-AR I use for a wye. I know I did it using my old Digitrax Zephyr, but I did not save my notes about how I did it. I do not want to struggle with recreating this process if changing CV55 is unlikely to solve this problem. What do you think? Is it worth a try?
I should add that my PSX breakers are connected to a Digitrax Evolution system.
As always, I appreciate any assistance I receive.