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Reddit mentions of Basic DCC Wiring for Your Model Railroad: A Beginner's Guide to Decoders, DCC Systems, and Layout Wiring
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- Easy to use. Self-adhesive back with adhesive tape for secure and easy application
- Safe to use. The working voltage is 12V. extremely low heat. It is touchable and safe to children.
- Cuttable and linkable. If you want make it shorter, you can cut it every 3 LEDs along the cutting marks, without damaging the rest strips.
- High Brightness SMD 5050 LED Chips
- Flexible operations. Slim, compact and flexible PCB strip. Mount end-to-end for bendable or angled patterns, or in continuous rows.
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| Height | 11.83 inches |
| Length | 6.98 inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Width | 0.13 inches |
Borrow a copy of Basic DCC Wiring for Your Model Railroad and The DCC Guide, Second Edition from your local library. I found them to be pretty decent sources for getting your layout wired up correctly.
As you said, fitting decoders to your locomotives is another challenge, TCS has decent photo guides for installing their decoders in many locomotives; I assume other decoder manufacturers have similar resources.
For controllers, I'm told NCE is pretty beginner-friendly, but I have not used them.
I went with digitrax because that's what the local clubs use, even though they're all HO clubs, it's still handy to have a local resource to draw on.
Then there's the folks that are rolling their own controllers, the folks using JMRI and their computer, and others.