Keeping cost down on DCC cables and face plates!

phantom Feb 19, 2006

  1. phantom

    phantom TrainBoard Member

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    Now for those of you who have not found the pricing on the adapter plates and cables…. I did not realize that MRC adapter / face plates where so BLEEPING expensive! I found in my case for all the cables and Y adapters plus the face plates that it ran almost $100 per 4 plug station. Now on my G scale layout I need 3 stations of 4 plugs in each room for a grand total of 6 stations. Now 6 x $100 = $600 that’s a lot! So I went to home depot and bought 150 foot of RJ45 8 conductor network cable and 2 packs of female RJ45 plugs and 10 plastic switch boxes with 10 face plates that each held 2 RJ45 female outlets per box. I spent a whooping $250 on all compared to the $600 I almost spent.

    See how I did it, so you can to! Go to DCC Comes to the DAV&P in G scale! :D
     

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