Powering the Frog
I had heard all this talk about powering the frog and it wasn't until I started to retest the West Wardell section of the layout that at the points the locomotives would sometimes just stopped.
An Internet search found these Frog Juicers from Tam Valley Depot I bought a pair of Dual Frog Juicers to power my four points on this section of the layout. One of the key reasons for using them as that I still wanted to hand-throw the points and still have power in the frog. .
Whilst I had thought they were fairly expensive, I found them easy to install and faultless in design in ensuring no short occurs when using DCC electrofrog points.
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| Above: Unopened Dual Frog Juicer |
Road testing the Frog Juicer
Here is a video of the test loco going through the points
Bottom view of Frog Juicer
View of the frog juicer in action with the lights changing.
