Baseboard

[Tony fly fishing]

I'm in a bad situation with this folks got myself ready cleaned up the baseboard and plenty of power but none of the change over switches are functioning I'm unable to carry out the work, I'm completely useless where electric issues come into play, jim said I should put up a few pictures please   help 

[Tullygrainey]

Hi Tony, When you say there's plenty of power, I'm assuming you mean track power to make the trains move. It's likely your points motors have a separate power supply (?) so the first thing to check is whether that power supply is working and is delivering power to the points. How's it connected to the layout? Could it be something simple like a wire coming adrift at the source?

Points are often wired with a separate feed to each motor but a common return wire daisy-chaining from motor to motor and back to the PSU. Given that all the points have failed, the trouble could be a bad connection somewhere in this common return.

Hope you get it sorted. These sorts of things can be very frustrating!

Alan

[dropshort105]

That's what I was thinking, one bad connection on a common return wire and nothing works, thats the middle wire on the point motor, what part of the country are you in, I'm not an electrical wizard, but happy to take a look if it's not too far.

[Broithe]

The back of the controller will look like this. There's a good chance that the points run off the middle "Accessories" outlets. See if things are still connected there. As said, if they're all not working, it is likely to be a common supply isuue.

Starting at the source and working 'downstream' is a good procedure.

[Tony fly fishing]

That's the same control box all wires are tightly connected, I believe two are for the track and two other wires are for the points that's me trying to think maybe I'm wrong folks but I'm bloody useless, with this, I went and bought another 3 locomotives yesterday for it but that's me as you can see iv cleared the baseboard for access as access is tight but I really would appreciate any help payment straight away just get me going again, Tony Butler Bohernabreena chairman of the dodder anglers association Dublin  ph 085 750 5202 

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Edited 59 minutes ago by Tony fly fishing
Forgot to include my contact details