Greetings, The challenge - chip resistor across Fox Valley Models brass wheel sets to create detectable cars. The picture on their web site looks like the axle and one wheel are connected and the other wheel is insulated. Anyone know if this is correct? Sorry, my VOM is currently unavailable. Thanks for your time and trouble.
I was looking at making cabooses detectable with the Atlas signal system I'm in the process of installing on the club layout. I thought of using resistance paint but the local electronics stores didn't stock any, so I googled resistance paint and came up with this. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000JLA I ground some graphite from a pencil, dipped a brush in some paint, mixed it around and painted the back of the insulated wheel of a Fox Valley wheelset, put it on the track and the signal system dectected it. You may have to experiment with the ratio of graphite/paint, but it works and is easier than soldering resistors to the wheelsets.
Hi, That's a good article, thanks. Also it looks like only one wheel on the FVM wheel set is insulated so the process would change somewhat. I'm not planning to solder the chip resistors on but glue them. Here's a fairly good set of instructions, although for HO. HO-Scale Resisted Wheelsets for DCC Block Detection
