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Can USA and Aristo critters be mu together

Hi everyone My question is can two aristo critters or USA mighty moes be mued together for better track pickup especially around aristo dead frogs on switches thanks. Yes I’m using track power on my indoor belt line

I don’t see why not, I’m not any electronics wizard, but seams like if you can tap off the track pick-ups and run wires between the two units, it would be no different than wiring together two power blocks on a kitbash engine build. The wiring bridge just acts like extra power pickups between the two engines. You didn’t mention any of the DCC electronics crud that these engine seam to be stuffed with these days, I cannot help you with interconnecting any of that, that’s why I suggested doing the interconnection at the track pickup level. Hopefully others here can help with that.

Thanks for the reply staying away from that dreaded dcc maybe eventually go to the darkside of rc and battery just kidding battery nuts :slight_smile: thanks Troy

Neither of those 2 units have DCC sockets… USAT has never had any DCC help, and the critter has never had a socket either.

Greg

(of course people who don’t want to cut wires and solder and who just want to plug in a decoder LOVE that “DCC electronics crud” )

Just put it on the track, turn the knob on the pack, KISS is bliss :wink: :smiley:

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You might want to try here http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips3/connector_tips.html and add this page to your list of tips, http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips.html

I used this method on my 4 locos and the full passenger train for constant pickup