The recommendation is for track length. So for your layout you need to calculate your track length that you have in that space. A simple loop will be 300 x 2 + 160 x 2 or approx. 920 cm long. This is 9.2 m which would indicate that you should have 4 feeder wires. So yes a bus wire is warranted.

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Peter

Hi Fernando,

12 AWG would be more than fine for your bus wire.

Unless you have to have very long feeder wires, more than 1 m,
I would not recommend thicker feeder wire than 22 AWG, as they would tend to push the tracks. This would be an issue if you want the feeder wires to be hidden underneath the tracks.

Brgds Lasse

Thanks Guys for the information provided. The length of the tracks is about 32 m. So I will use your suggestions to work with.
I never heard to use a standard house wiring for the bus Peter. Probably is a cheap alternative. What I find out that some people use twisted thick wires like 12 gauge for it.
I like the idea of standard house wires, the cost of it is considerably less than 12 gauge wires.

Thanks you all

Fernando

Thank you Peter

That is awesome. The picture is very clear. Definitely I'll do the same with my layout. I was ready to go to buy 12 gauge wire, but I will save some money with the house cable that I have plenty.

I will appreciate if you can share some more information about your track wiring.

Thanks a lot

Cheers

Fernando

Was just about to ask the same question regarding the blocks...

I agree with Peter.

here are also some connectors that will make your life easy:
http://layout.mixmox.com/1/20020224Wiretaps

I agree that if you take brand new old style Marklin plugs they fit too loosely and fall out. The trick is to spread the plug prongs slightly by inserting a hobby knife blade at the tip in each direction. This makes a snug fit and the plugs generally become harder to pull out let alone being prone to falling out. In 3 years I have had one plug fall out after using this method. It ended up having a broken prong.

Peter

That is basically it. The heavier gauge bus wire gets connected to the CS2 track power connector (not the programming track connector) and then you run the bus around your layout and drop leads to either terminal strips for further distribution to tracks or tap off directly with smaller gauge feeder wired for the track at the recommended intervals.

My photos further back in this thread show the terminal strip method. I run left over 14 AWG house wire around my layout and terminate the 5 conductors and 2 grounds in standard house outlet boxes with 6 binding posts to distribute the power to the terminal strips. From the brown and red terminals I feed my track with 18 AWG wire. From the white terminals I feed my catenary and from the yellow and brown I feed my lighting through fused terminals.

Cheers
Peter

Thanks TEEWolf. A picture is worth a thousand words!
Very helpful.