Powering the Frogs on DCC-Friendly Shinohara Turnouts

GNMT76 Oct 8, 2018

  1. GNMT76

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    To power the frogs on my DCC-friendly Shinohara turnouts, I plan to solder a 22-AWG wire to the inside wing rail of each turnout (rather than from underneath). All my turnouts will be operated by Tortoise. My layout is DC.

    Now, I assume I have the option of connecting the other end of the wire to either:

    1) the main bus wire; or

    2) to any terminal on the Tortoise (to nos. 2-7, that is, since nos. 1 and 8 power the turnouts)

    Is this correct? And if to the Tortoise, does it matter which terminal I use (other than nos 1 or 8)?

    Circuitron's AN-6000-2 (entitled "Switch Point and Signal Wiring Using the Internal Switches on the Tortoise") alludes to this as an aside, showing the closure rail and terminal no. 4 wired (as all the others are otherwise wired) together via a terminal block (barrier strip).

    Thanks.
     

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