Wiring for Diamonds

By Allan Gartner

www.wiringfordcc.com

Wiring Peco Electrofrog Crossings

Wiring a Peco Electrofrog crossing for DCC is straight forward. Refer to drawing #6 that comes with Peco products. Just replace the DPDT switch shown in the drawing with an auto reversing module. The two wires coming into the autoreversing module go to your booster. The two wires coming out of the module go to the frogs of your crossing – one output wire to each frog. No, it doesn’t matter which output wire goes to which frog.

Place an insulated joiner on the four rails that lead away from the two frogs.

If you use an adjustable autoreverse module, make sure you set its sensitivity low enough that it will trip before your booster. If you have a non-adjustable one, make sure it is sensitive enough that it will trip before your booster does.

Wiring for Points

By Allan Gartner

www.wiringfordcc.com

This page was amended by Steve Weeks Feb 02 with the permission of Allan Gartner

Peco "Electrofrog" Turnout Is Ready In Just a Few Snips.

Remove the wire links shown dashed on the underside of the insulators. Don't panic, there are only 2 links on the back so go ahead and remove them. Now add the jumpers. Conveniently placed gaps in the plastic on the back make installation of these jumpers easy! You will probably need to widen these gaps so that you can solder the jumpers to the underside of the rails.

Solder bonds from each closure rail to the corresponding point rail to ensure life-long good electrical contact and avoid a potential hot spot.

You will need to use insulated joiners on the ends of the frog rails and will need to power route the frog as shown via Aux contacts.