I hate to do this with such a new system which I honestly still feel is going to brake new ground in this hobby.  My first days experience was not good.  After eagerly awaiting its arrival and waiting to charge the throttle I could not get the system to work.

I have this "N" scale layout that is giving me fits with shorts that should not be happening and looking for ideas for the cause of the shorts. Attached is a diagram of my layout. I use the NCE PowerCab DCC system.

All turnouts Atlas #7 with 5-Tortoise and 7-Hoffmann switch machines.

All the turnouts and switch machines work fine except #'s 8, 11 & 12. When I run a loco it always stops at any one of the three turnouts regardless of the way the turnouts are set. Any thoughts on why this would be? None of the other turnouts do this.

I have finalized my DCC system. As previously mentioned I have built a DCC++ Base Station per the instructions found on the DCC++ YouTube site and other resources on the web. On my blog I have lots of links and how to’s for that. To run DCC++ you either have to use the software that was developed for it or use JMRI. I chose JMRI. Instead of running it on my lap top I wanted a dedicated computer for it so I invested in a Raspberry Pi. A Pi, is a very small credit card sized board designed to run a version of Linux. No worries, no Linux knowledge is needed.

I have had several false starts at doing this. I opened up some loco's to see what I had to deal with and sort of lost interest. Mostly I lose interest as I am not certain of what I am doing and watching video's and reading the manuals doesn't seem to answer all my questions. I have a couple of Lok pilot decoders I just received. Those should be simple as I wont be changing the installed light boards.