INSULATED RAIL JOINERS FOR SM32 TRACK

TONYWARD50

TONYWARD50

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My Lynton & Barnstaple loco has been converted to 32mm gauge and I want to install a passing loop on a digital layout.
I have been told that I need to insert insulated joiners on this track arrangement. I have Peco Code 200 rail (SM32) but can I find any insulated joiners to fit ?
I have looked at the Peco website but that does not mention anything, neither does Peco's instructions with the points (other than saying insert one !).
Anyone have any idea what the Code number is, and where I can get any ?
I only need two.

Thanks guys,

Tony
 
Hi Tony would it be better to isolate the loco with a toggle switch I have with most of mine which are not LGB.
Graham Shrewsbury.
 
May be a silly question, Tony (mine often are! ;) ) - but if it's a DCC layout as you said in your post, why do you need to isolate anything.....? ???

Jon.

Edit: except a reverse loop, of course - but I think you did say a passing loop?
 
Zerogee said:
why do you need to isolate anything.....? ???
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I think you will find that these are 'Electrofrog' (translation, live frog).... you will introduce a 'short' if you don't insulate the back of the frogs (on the same road).

You can always 'insulate' using the 'fresh air' method, best only used on straight track though.
 
Ah, OK - never having used live frog points in any gauge, I hadn't realised that!

Does that mean you have to do the same if you choose to wire up the brass frog on, say, a GRS point?

Jon.
 
Wherever you do a Loop or Crossing with two points you need to isolate, effectively with Live Frog Points you can be creating a Short Circuit Situation.

For safety it is always best to Isolate BOTH Rails on the Frog (Vee) part of the point. This will isolate the section that is after the Point. To resolve this just put in a Jumper Wire to pass the Power over to the now dead section.

Just google:-

Peco Track Wiring Diagrams

there are plenty of Drawings and pictures that explain this far better than I can in words.
JonD
 
Thanks, Jon D.
I am happy with the concept but I cannot find any insulating joiners to fit Code 200 track.
Even Peco do not make them even though it is their track and they refer to the insulation required in the accompanying instructions !
I could just leave a gap but this sounds a bit "Heath Robinson"-type of solution.

Any thoughts ?
 
http://www.tenmille.com/PRICE_RETAIL.pdf


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owlpool said:
http://www.tenmille.com/PRICE_RETAIL.pdf
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Worth contacting Tenmille first to confirm suitability. They may be for code 200 rail but Peco rail doesn't always match rail of other makes with the same code.

I discovered this when looking for railclamps for Peco code 250 "G 45" rail.
In the U.S. code 250 flat bottomed insulated rail clamps are available to suit 3 sizes of code 250 flat bottomed rail with 4mm, 5mm and 6mm nominal base width. Peco G45 rail is 4mm base.

http://www.railclamp.com/#!/~/product/category=3439640&id=16661996

Note, at the bottom of the page in that link they claim their code 250 5mm clamps are suitable for Marklin code 200 track amongst others.
 
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