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adamakatubby

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Please can someone help!
Thing is i'm planning an N gauge layout and i want it to be maneuverable, so separate baseboard sections. Thing is, i'm not quite sure how i'm going to pass the power from one board to the other. The plan is to have 3 L:4ft

x W:2ft boards. I've read about D connectors a little bit and seen some people using scarts as well, i'm not electricity literate either so that doesn't help.

Hope someone can shed a bit of light on this.
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Hi Adam, Hi all,
I`m planning on using what I think are called Molex plugs which are four pin plugs used to connect IDE hard drives. If I screw through the socket part I can fix it to the bottom of the boards timber frame on one side and on the other

where the locating pins for connecting the boards already stick out I will fix the male part of the Molex plug. This will give me board to board connectors for the power bus and a lighting circuit in a single plug.

Col

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I use 'D' plugs as they are the best i've found for the job if you need a lot of diffrent connections between the boards . Also watch out as the cheep ones have a lower power rating some as low as half amp . Good ones are rated at five amps .

Scart

plugs are not realy ment to carry high current being made for video signals so over time may cause problems .

If you don't want to solder the connectors you can get a plug and socket terminal block from lots of model shops or at model exhibitions that

have screw in terminals and are in strips of 12 connections .

;) Poliss is pluging my videos again ,, Thanks
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