I would like to put DCC in my railroad but is it a pain in the but to wire ???
HODude,
DCC is the simplest to wire! A pair of wires and that’s it. Depending upon the size of your layout, and whether you want to have occupancy detection or signaling in the future, you might end up with “blocks” and other wire pairs (buses), but no rotary switches, no toggles, no real long runs of signal wire, just the wire pair (or pairs). You get to run the trains, not the sections of track!!! And you can run more trains than you can imagine on the same layout that would allow only a few when wired conventionally (DC). Pick a set of colors for your wire pair (gray/yellow, orange/blue - outside rail/inside rail) and follow it around the layout. Never connect a different color to the bus wire and you won’t have a problem. Insulate the two rails off the frog of every turnout, drop plenty of track feeders, never rely on rail joiners to carry current from one section of track to another, and you won’t have any dead spots. DCC has revolutionized model railroading.
Mark C.