by Nor Cal Mike » Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:42 am
You could use the drop in sections as your pathway to feed the power to all of the lanes. In the crossover drop in, you could wire it so all three lanes are fed into only one of the drivers stations. When you switch the sections out to have three individual lanes, the wiring in that section would be wired to receive the three individual feeds from all the drivers stations. If you use a common neutral to all lanes you could make those connections with a 4 pin flat trailer plug. I use 4 pin trailer plugs all of the time for removable sections like overpasses etc. If you plan to install a reversing switch in the drivers stations, you cannot use a common neutral to the lanes so a 6 pin plug would be needed.
Beware of any wiring scheme that leaves the other drivers stations connected to any lanes when you have all the lanes wired into single circuit. The reason is that if you leave an unused controller connected to any one of the other unused drivers stations, you will have a direct short at that controller since the unused controller is shorted out in the brake brake circuit when the trigger is in the off position :naughty: I guarantee, YOU WILL burn up the controller. Don't ask me how I know this :doh: By properly wiring the differing wiring schemes through each of the separate drop ins, you will avoid this hazard.
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Nor Cal Mike on Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:53 am, edited 2 times in total.