westernwill Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I am about to set up a Reversing Loop on my layout. I understand about isolating it and it being longer than the longest train likely to run, in fact it will be very long. My question is will I have any problems if I have more than 1 train operating within the track area controlled by the RLM module ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Can't forsee any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 According to Allan Gartner, you get a short circuit, so you mustn't allow it to happen. :-( https://www.hornby.com/forum/reverse-loop-module-7869/?p=1/#post-100041 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 If you have a VERY big loop, how about installing three isolation breaks, then the two loco's at once problem won't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westernwill Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Not sure how or where the third isolation break would fit in ? I can see that adding another RLM so there is 1 at the start of the long loop and another at the exit should work ok. Thanks everybody for the input, any more ideas will be most welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 If you have 3 isolation breaks and one RLM, it would bridge across the middle break anyway and effectively eliminate it. you would need 2 RLMs to avoid this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westernwill Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Thanks Fishmanoz, that confirms what I was thinking. I think I will end up with 2 RLM's. Loco detection may well resolve the problem but that is in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choralc Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 According to Allan Gartner, you get a short circuit, so you mustn't allow it to happen. :-( I've tried to get onto the Allan Gartner website but none of his site appears to be up. Is there anyone able to get on (present tense) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westernwill Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 According to Allan Gartner, you get a short circuit, so you mustn't allow it to happen. :-(I've tried to get onto the Allan Gartner website but none of his site appears to be up. Is there anyone able to get on (present tense)Tried just now and failed but tried again and it was up ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 That's the wrong URL in my previous post. Don't know how it got there. This is the right one.http://www.wiringfordcc.com/intro2dcc.htm#a26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2e0dtoeric Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sorry, I was a bit vague in my reply. As you have a very long reversing loop, adding another isolating break - say - halfway round, and a second module. would do the job - assuming the track length between breaks is longer than the longest train, on both sections, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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