DCC Keep Alives, making the connection (32)

DCC keep alives can be easy to install with new decoders but a real challenge in older decoders without dedicated wires or solder points for them. I'll show you how it works with both types.

Let me point out that in order to probe the diode bridge for the negative voltage connection as I demonstrated in the video the decoder must have DCC power supplied to it. I realized afterwards that although I showed this I never really stated outright that this is required.

Other websites I mentioned with info on keep alives follows below. If you do a search on the Streamlined Backshop website you will find he has several pages on various keep alive installations.

Australian stay alive  http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/ma...

Streamlined backshop  http://www.sbs4dcc.com/tutorialstipst...

Mark Gurries  https://sites.google.com/site/markgur...

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