Thursday, July 10, 2014

Wiring the Hon3 engine terminal

Between working on my bathroom remodeling project and this, I've just about finished wiring this up.
I wired this so that if I decide to put blocks in at some later date, it will be real easy to do. I highly recommend using some sort of connectors on the wires, makes it real easy to make changes, plus don't have to worry about a stray wire strand causing a short.
In the picture above, you can see I labeled at the tracks using a green marker. RH5 means roundhouse track 5. Also, next to the terminal strip I also wrote the track id on the wood

A benefit to building a module is I can set it up on the coffee table and work from the comfort of my couch

Since I'm using DCC, I'm ganging all the wire feeds together

Neat and tidy is the key to trouble free wiring. There will be 2 feeds that go to each terminal strip to supply track power

Bought cable anchors (the small black squares) to keep the wiring tidy.
Now that wiring is done. I can turn my attention to scenery.