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Making the trains go round the inner track


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Hi i have just bought a train set with packs A to D, my train can go round the outside track but soon as i put it in the inner track it wont unless i keep switching the Y tracks back and forth is there an easier way of doing this by isolating the tracks, i have to keep leaning over to switch 2 Y tracks otherwise the train stops. Thanks Gary.
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Hornby points have a self isolating feature built into them which makes most track layouts easy to set up but in this case this feature can be a problem. You have a number of options available to you. 1 Get another power supply and controller and connect this to the inner circuit. This allows two locos to be run and controlled independantly, one on the inner track and one on the outer. 2 Add an additional track feed from the outer circuit to the inner circuit. You may be able to run two locos at the same time but they will both move under the control of one controller and may overload the controller. 3 Fit the R823 point clips to the points. This will give you the same as option 2. 4 Convert to digital (DCC) operation.
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Hi, Thanks for your reply, at the moment i'm using one train, it geos round the outside as i said fine, but once i put it in the inner track, i am leaning over alot to keep constantly switching the Y points otherwise it will stop, so is there anotehr way one train can just do both tracks?. Thanks Gary.
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As I said in point 2 of my original reply "Add an additional track feed from the outer circuit to the inner circuit". You can do this with the Hornby link wire set, R8201,
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  • 3 years later...

I'm assuming you are using dc rather than dcc? If that is the case then generally for each complete circuit of track you will need one controller, or a controller with two controlled outputs.

Then you can move your train from one circuit to the other, stop it, change the points and then use the second controller on the second circuit.

 

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You shouldn't need 2 controllers for one train, only to run 2 trains independently on each track. 

Link wires should work, but another way is to run 2 sets of wires from your single controller to a power track or power clip in each loop. Agsin you must make sure you wire them the same way around or the whole thing will short out and overload when you switch your points. 

PS. I know that 2 power feeds are electrically equivalent to one feed and links if correctly wired. But given the links don't work, they can't be correctly wired so I'm suggesting this arrangement may be easier to do. 

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