{"id":806,"date":"2020-07-03T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=806"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:59:03","slug":"new-electrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/new-layout\/new-electrics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Electrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I still plan on using my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esu.eu\/en\/products\/digital-control\/ecos-50210-dcc-system\/what-ecos-can-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESU ECoS Command Station<\/a> (although I had to get a <a aria-label=\"new transformer (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/railsofsheffield.com\/products\/38222\/esu-loksound-50119-any-scale-transformer-15-21vdc-7a-150va-input-120-240vac\" target=\"_blank\">new transformer<\/a> as my previous one appeared to have a dodgy connection) and DCC Concepts Cobalt IP Digital point motors from the old layout but as mentioned in the lessons I learned I will be trying to make the wiring a bit neater and easier to do. Again as mentioned, I will not be soldering anything but I won&#8217;t be using the Scotchlocks to connect the droppers to the bus wire this time. I&#8217;m going to try using these <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B076CNTB76\/\" target=\"_blank\">terminal blocks<\/a> as recommended by <a aria-label=\"Charlie at Chadwick Model Railway (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MZEBfGY9bxg?t=269\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie at Chadwick Model Railway<\/a> on <a aria-label=\"YouTube (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gVIC0o7pScM&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=882\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> and connect the dropper wires using <a aria-label=\"crimped on fork\/spade connectors (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.railwayscenics.com\/electrical-and-electronics-connectors-plugs-sockets-and-leads-crimp-connectors-red-crimp-connectors-red-37mm-4ba-fork-connector-crimp-on-terminal-pkt-25-p-367.html\" target=\"_blank\">crimped on fork\/spade connectors<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still plan on using my ESU ECoS Command Station (although I had to get a new transformer as my previous one appeared to have a dodgy connection) and DCC Concepts Cobalt IP Digital point motors from the old layout but as mentioned in the lessons I learned I will be trying to make the&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/new-layout\/new-electrics\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":317,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/806\/revisions\/1933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikesmodelrailway.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}